Meaning of workaround in English
(Definition of workaround from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of workaround
workaround
Back in the 1950s, such facilities were rare, often requiring an invariably cumbersome and often unsatisfactory workaround.
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Nearly always, there is a workaround.
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They spend more time on finding workarounds than on almost any other task.
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A workaround is what the staff have to do to make the computer system get round a procedure that it was not designed to do in the first place.
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For this reason, some wizards came up with a workaround, using some energy to warp reality itself or at least human perception of it.
The developers apologized for the glitch and offered a temporary workaround, however, saved games already lost to the glitch were not recoverable.
As a workaround for this problem the creation of institutional profiles has become popular.
There are unofficial download sites that also provide this workaround.
Typically, this is only a "workaround" which has to be implemented manually and can not guarantee that the system always ends in a consistent state.
An obvious workaround for longer recordings was to release a set of records.
There is no legally-provided workaround or modification available.
A workaround is typically a temporary fix that implies that a genuine solution to the problem is needed.
In implementing a workaround it is important to flag the change so as to later implement a proper solution.
There is no workaround for this flaw and it occurs with all operating systems since it is an issue at the hardware level.
Another workaround is to play a two-round match, in which players switch sides after the first round.
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