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 fixes; 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 crashes 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."
