1. stopgap - Noun
2. stopgap - Adjective
3. stopgap - Verb
something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
Source: WordNetThe social is a stopgap. Socialism is the ideology of the future. Joseph Goebbels
The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. Chuck Schumer
As opposed to the ZTZ-96, which was meant to also kind of be a “stopgap” tank, the ZTZ-99 was meant to be a true competitor to international designs like the Abrams, Leopard 2 and T-80. Source: Internet
A stopgap solution was to convert some services back to locomotive haulage, as spare locomotives and hauled coaching stock were available, but this also increased operating costs. Source: Internet
As a stopgap measure to help locals cope with the unsettling sound of silence, the New York Public Library knocked together a playlist of familiar audio landscapes recorded in the city before the virus caused changed everything. Source: Internet
It dispensed with the membrane keyboard and used a case similar to that of the ZX Spectrum, incorporating 16 KB of on-board memory.sfn It was effectively a stopgap between the ZX81 and Spectrum. Source: Internet