Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stopgap"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stop-gap \Stop"-gap`\, n.
That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a
temporary expedient.
Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue. --Hare.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stopgap
n : something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
[syn: {makeshift}]
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