Definitions For Stopgap
noun
- Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
- Someone or something that is intended to be used for a short time and then replaced by someone or something better : a temporary substitute
Is Stopgaps a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
16
The word Stopgap is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Stopgap in a Sentence
- The new law is intended only as a stopgap.
- The coach we have now was only hired as a stopgap until someone with more experience is found