How to pronounce“stopgap”in English
adjfor others who are still ill with more or less success in in different diseases for for around 100 years now and for the
last few months it's also been used on an unprecedented scale as a stopgap measure to to try to fight
covet 19. um that's allowing larger scale studies uh but the researchers trying to carry them out have hit a couple of big speed bumps
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Definitions of “stopgap”
That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
“[A] bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe.”
Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
Short-term; temporary.
“They put a stopgap solution in place, but need something more permanent.”
Filling a gap or pause.
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