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noun
- 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.
- (capitalized) A particular brand of adhesive bandage.
- 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 that won't fix the underlying problems in the system.
Translations: - Dutch: pleister
- French: pansement
- German: Pflaster
- Italian: cerotto
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- Spanish: curita (italbrac, Latin America), parche curita (italbrac, Chile), tirita , aposito (italbrac, Spain)
verb
- To apply an adhesive bandage.
- As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.
- To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.
- Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.
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