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Перевод: stopgap

[существительное]
затычка ; замена ; временная мера; паллиатив ; временный заместитель

Тезаурус:

1. They now recognised that their plan to send some intelligent lads for education in farriery to such continental schools would be at best a rather feeble stopgap measure, while in any case the revolutionary situation in France was not favourable to the original Odiham plan.
2. The first house he built for his own occupation was a stopgap, put up to live in until something more suitable was acquired.
3. The United States had already agreed under the Mutual Defence Aid Programme to provide 70 B-29 bombers (renamed Washingtons in RAF service) as a stopgap, and these had started to arrive in March 1950 as part of the NATO build-up in Western Europe before the Korean War began.
4. Manufacturers want to sell the gadgets as a "stopgap" until more useful large flat screens arrive
5. When there isn't enough time to do what must be done, you find yourself papering over the cracks and making stopgap decisions.
6. When Louis Benjamin was looking for a stopgap for Drury Lane between 42nd Street's closure and Miss Saigon's opening, the only production which could fill London's biggest theatre was Dame Edna's one-woman show: one Australian housewife outdrew the huge casts of the big-budget musicals.
7. He was originally seen as a stopgap, chosen almost solely for his respectability after two previous prime ministers had been forced to resign in quick succession.
8. Opposite page top: P48 MkII with stopgap Climax V8.
9. In the meantime, the wartime Lancasters would be replaced, as a stopgap measure, by the unpressurized Lincolns, which would be large enough to carry atomic bombs, if the Government decided to manufacture them in spite of US objections.
10. The place of coal in the NEP appears to be to generate electricity instead of oil, although whether it has a long-term future in this rle or is merely a useful stopgap is unclear.
11. Meanwhile I regard positive language as akin to positive discrimination: it is a stopgap measure, a necessary stage on the long historic journey toward liberation and justice.
12. So, until EMI comes to its senses and restores it to the catalogue, the Nuova Era will have to stand as an adequate, if less than ideal stopgap.
13. Officially the electric HST is still intended as a stopgap for the much-delayed advanced passenger train.