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stopgap |
2 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: stopgap n : something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency [syn: {makeshift}]
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