English
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Alternative spellings
bandaid
Band-Aid
BAND-AID®

Noun
en-noun

1. US An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.
2. (capitalized) A particular brand of adhesive bandage.
3. US A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc (often used with a negative connotation of a lack of foresight)

#:*The proposed pension reforms are just a band-aid that won't fix the underlying problems in the system.

Synonyms
;small bandage with adhesive backing
adhesive bandage
plaster
sticking plaster
;makeshift solution
hack

Usage notes
BAND-AID® is a registered trade-mark of w:Johnson and Johnson|Johnson and Johnson.

Translations
trans-top|adhesive bandage
Bosnian: flaster#Bosnian|flaster m
Dutch: pleister
Finnish: laastari
French: pansement
German: Pflaster n
Italian: cerotto m
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Norwegian: plaster
Polish: plaster m
Portuguese: penso m
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: �ла��е�#Serbian|�ла��е� m
:Roman: flaster#Serbian|flaster m
Spanish: curita f italbrac|Latin America, parche curita italbrac|Chile, tirita f, aposito m italbrac|Spain
Swedish: plåster n
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trans-top|temporary or makeshift solution
Finnish: paikkaus
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Verb
en-verb

1. To apply an adhesive bandage.

#:As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.

1. To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

#:Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

Translations
trans-top|to apply an adhesive bandage
Finnish: laastaroida
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See also
w:Sticking plaster|Wikipedia article on Sticking plaster
w:BAND-AID|Wikipedia article on BAND-AID

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• 2007-12-04 00:10 - PiotrK - /* Translations */

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