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stopgaps
Stopgap means a temporary substitute.
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schemes
An orderly plan or arrangement of related parts:
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resources
The definition of a resource is something that is ready to use if or when it is needed.
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methods
A means or manner of procedure, especially a regular and systematic way of accomplishing something:
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expediencies
A means; an expedient.
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shifts
(Archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail
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resorts (related)
A going or turning for help, support, etc.; recourse
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devices (related)
(Law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
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substitutes (related)
(Sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
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helps (related)
(Uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
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  • She endeavoured unsuccessfully to eke out her irregularly paid allowance by those expedients to which reduced gentlewomen are driven - fancywork and painting fans and snuff-boxes; she lived in a garret and was often unable to allow herself the luxury of a fire.

  • Positive law, at least in progressive societies, is constantly tending to fall behind public opinion, and the expedients adopted for bringing it into harmony therewith are three, viz, legal fictions, equity and statutory legislation.

  • By dint of expedients he gradually overcame the chronic deficit, and, owing to the normal increase of revenue, ended his term of office with the announcement of a surplus of some 720,000.

  • His character was hardening, and he deliberately adopted the most barbarous expedients for converting the Augustan Poles to his views.

  • The government yielded to the outcry that arose; but the expedients by which it sought to mitigate the evil, notably the division of those entitled to relief into classes, only increased the alarm and the discontent.

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