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Stop-gap   Listen
noun
Stop-gap  n.  That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient. "Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stop-gap" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr Seymour, 'and unfortunately for the cause of morality, I am not a master. I was only a stop-gap, and my term of office ceased today at one o'clock. Thus the prisoner at the bar gets off on a technical point of law, and I trust it will be a lesson to him. I suppose you had the sense ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse



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