stopgap

He has left millions of homeowners to fend for themselves, and even his health care plan is really only a stopgap measure.

His “strategists” have concocted a series of stopgap tactics.

As for Fattorosi of XPays, he sees the lawsuits as only a stopgap.

But even Joffe admits that a better radar and rapid reaction system is only a partial, stopgap solution.

Only it had been planned as a short-term stopgap—one to be used only until a below-surface airlock could be constructed.

However, a stopgap was found in the person of the book-keeper, a young Englishman, who knew more of music than accounts.

The stopgap was such that it must remain as it was; and every further effort was useless.

Because Brownlee knows why I'm looking for a cure to replace the stopgap.

In this his Christian neighbours liked him well, insomuch as he was a kind of stay or stopgap to the infidels.