How to pronounce“stopgap”in English
verbit I think important as it is the the agreement that's been really reached between the UK and Brussels at this point is perhaps something of a
stopgap it's there on page one under the caveat that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed on I think it's important to remember that there are
some big issues which have been worked out here but it's lacking in detail in a lot of areas and the real work is yet to come Jonathan Blake our political
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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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