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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