stop-gap
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See also: stopgap
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (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
[edit]stop-gap (not comparable)
- (chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap
Verb
[edit]stop-gap (third-person singular simple present stop-gaps, present participle stop-gapping, simple past and past participle stop-gapped)
- (chiefly British spelling) Alternative form of stopgap