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stopgap
Notlösung
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I. ˈstop·gap N
stopgap
Notlösung f <-, -en>
stopgap
Notbehelf m <-(e)s, -e>
II. ˈstop·gap ADJ attr, inv
stopgap
stopgap measure
stopgap solution
Zwischenlösung f <-, -en>
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The council is now located in an existing building as a stopgap.
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Rover viewed this 4x4 as a stopgap to get production running and so the company could return to building luxury cars.
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This reconstruction, or rather these reconstructionstwo different schwas are commonly deployedis a stopgap, purely.
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In this paradigm, the idea of the temporary worker as a stopgap solution to permanent labor became an entirely normative employment alternative to permanent work.
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For those in immediate crisis, alms and a shelter for the homeless served as a stopgap.
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Representatives of universities and research institutions and their libraries tend to regard the paragraph as something of a stopgap.
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Die Vertreter der Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen sowie ihre Bibliotheken halten den Paragrafen eher für eine Notlösung.
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In 1937, in a different context, he concisely explained that Jewish schools could not be mere “stopgap solutions” or “roofs providing shelter from a temporary storm.”
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www.jmberlin.de
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1937 wird er an anderer Stelle die prägnante Formulierung wählen, dass jüdische Schulen auch »keine Notlösungen« sein dürften, »kein gegen vorübergehendes Unwetter schützendes Dach«.
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It is fed completely from the fieldbus and offers much more than previous stopgaps with converters which only converted the 4 … 20mA signal to a digital value on the bus.
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krohne.com
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Es wird komplett aus dem Feldbus gespeist und bietet weit mehr als bisherige Notlösungen mit Konvertern, die lediglich das 4 … 20mA-Signal in einen digitalen Messwert auf dem Bus wandelten.
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Initially this sounds like a stopgap, for in this case the term continues to have not only colloquial associations:
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outlook.messefrankfurt.com
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Das klingt zunächst nach Notlösung, denn damit wird der Begriff nach wie vor nicht nur alltagssprachlich assoziiert:
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