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stop-gap
At the beginning it was treated as a temporary solution.
In April 1998 they came up with a temporary solution.
He clearly realized this was only a temporary solution at best.
I had found a temporary, solution but whether or not it would stand the test of application was another question.
If so, they are on the right track, but temporary solutions will not be enough.
It is only a temporary solution, but has been used in many other countries.
I sometimes go out with some friends and drink, but that's only a temporary solution.
At best, running offered only a temporary solution to their problem.
Like the art museum, this is only a temporary solution.
Research institutes seem to have found at least a temporary solution to their problems.
And in some cases short-term solutions are likely to lead to other unexpected problems.
Nevertheless, they are looking into the issue and a possible short-term solution.
But trying to change the market's direction through intervention is only a short-term solution.
It wasn't the answer, just the best short-term solution I had available.
The one thing you could definitely say for short-term solutions was that they were better than nothing.
"We need a short-term solution and he has capacity to help us out."
It was a short-term solution to try to get back to winning things.
To others the short-term solution looks like a long-term problem.
At the same time, the government is not putting forward any short-term or long-term solution.
Few expect a short-term solution to a problem that has been in the making for more than a decade.
Idiomy