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workaround n.
1. A temporary [kluge] used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a [bug] or [misfeature] in some system. Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by [fix]es; in practice, customers often find themselves living with workarounds for long periods of time. "The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I fixed it to interpret them as spaces." "That's not a fix, that's a workaround!" 2. A procedure to be employed by the user in order to do what some currently non-working feature should do. Hypothetical example: "Using META-F7 [crash]es the 4.43 build of Weemax, but as a workaround you can type CTRL-R, then SHIFT-F5, and delete the remaining [cruft] by hand."
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