stop-gap

See also: stopgap

English

Noun

stop-gap (plural stop-gaps)

  1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap
    • 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XLI, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 347:
      [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.

Adjective

stop-gap (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap

Verb

stop-gap (third-person singular simple present stop-gaps, present participle stop-gapping, simple past and past participle stop-gapped)

  1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap
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