mindmap root((权宜)) resource applies to anything one falls back upon: haven't exhausted all of my ~s yet. resort is like resource but is used mostly with 'last' or in the phrase 'to have resort to': favor a sales tax only as a last ~. expedient may apply to any device or contrivance used when the usual one is not at hand or not possible: the flimsiest of ~s ends the tale. shift implies a tentative or temporary imperfect expedient and often connotes dubiousness or trickery: her desperate ~s and dodges fooled no one. makeshift implies an inferior expedient adopted because of urgent need or countenanced through indifference: the space heater was supposed to be only a ~. stopgap applies to something used temporarily as an emergency measure: the farm aid bill is no more than a ~.