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- noun Plural form of
stop-gap .
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Examples
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These are good provisional things to do to cover your identity and privacy; they're only stop-gaps until the four puzzle pieces I wrote about above are in place.
Tim Chambers: Part Three: Who Owns the Digital You? Tim Chambers 2011
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Any sign aiming to sign Shefki Kuqi, even as the most short-term of stop-gaps, surely has aspirations of Championship survival rather than European glory.
Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor 2011
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Although these loans are no substitute for capital infusions, they provide useful stop-gaps.
You Know What to Do—Now Just Do It Irwin Stelzer 2011
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Our problems will not be solved by stop-gaps like QE3 or lower labor taxes, but they are not intractable.
The Folly of Economic Short-Termism Allan H. Meltzer 2011
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"The proposals I see coming from both the Democrats and Republicans are half-measures and stop-gaps," Dr. Munger said.
Press Release 2008
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"The proposals I see coming from both the Democrats and Republicans are half-measures and stop-gaps," Dr. Munger said.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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We resort to these pathetic stop-gaps to keep up a simulacrum of interest in the whole tedious processing and churning out of undergraduates.
Bill Sweetland: Education in Chicago: Wringing The Passion Out Of Higher Learning 2009
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All these stop-gaps that our American government is fitfully throwing into place -- many of them entirely appropriate in order to mediate the severity of The Great Leveling, programs and activities that are certainly in order -- still run a grave risk of enabling the sociological mess that is in place to retain its deadly influences.
The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited 2009
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For a while, live albums used to serve as stop-gaps between studio releases.
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All these stop-gaps that our American government is fitfully throwing into place -- many of them entirely appropriate in order to mediate the severity of The Great Leveling, programs and activities that are certainly in order -- still run a grave risk of enabling the sociological mess that is in place to retain its deadly influences.
The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited 2009
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