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"text": "The small company used their old product with a few kludged enhancements as a stopgap until they could develop a new product.",
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"text": "Perhaps I shall be told that this wintry exhibition is a mere stopgap and makeshift, until a fresh supply of bright new paintings can be procured, and that it is ultra vires to obtain such for love or money before the merry month of May.",
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"ref": "2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The Next King of Scotland”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50",
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"word": "対症療法"
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],
"glosses": [
"To stop up or fill (a physical gap or hole, or a hiatus)."
],
"links": [
[
"stop up",
"stop up"
],
[
"fill",
"fill#Verb"
],
[
"physical",
"physical#Adjective"
],
[
"gap",
"gap#Noun"
],
[
"hole",
"hole#Noun"
],
[
"hiatus",
"hiatus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To stop up or fill (a physical gap or hole, or a hiatus)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained."
],
"links": [
[
"use",
"use#Verb"
],
[
"short-term",
"short-term"
],
[
"fix",
"fix#Noun"
],
[
"temporary",
"temporary"
],
[
"measure",
"measure#Noun"
],
[
"better",
"good#Adjective"
],
[
"alternative",
"alternative#Noun"
],
[
"obtain",
"obtain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained.",
"To work at a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire is made."
],
"links": [
[
"use",
"use#Verb"
],
[
"short-term",
"short-term"
],
[
"fix",
"fix#Noun"
],
[
"temporary",
"temporary"
],
[
"measure",
"measure#Noun"
],
[
"better",
"good#Adjective"
],
[
"alternative",
"alternative#Noun"
],
[
"obtain",
"obtain"
],
[
"work",
"work#Verb"
],
[
"position",
"position#Noun"
],
[
"temporarily",
"temporarily"
],
[
"permanent",
"permanent#Adjective"
],
[
"appointment",
"appointment"
],
[
"hire",
"hire#Noun"
],
[
"made",
"make#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained.",
"(specifically) To work at a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire is made."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"specifically"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈstɒpɡæp/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈstɑpˌɡæp/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-stopgap.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/03/En-us-stopgap.ogg/En-us-stopgap.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/En-us-stopgap.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "more common in the UK",
"word": "stop-gap"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained",
"word": "lapzalven"
}
],
"word": "stopgap"
}
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