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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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