A response to a negative risk event Distinguished from contingency plan in that a workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event
n A temporary {kluge} inserted in a system under development or test in order to avoid the effects of a {bug} or {misfeature} so that work can continue Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by {fix}es; in practice, customers often find themselves living with workarounds in the first couple of releases "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!"
(Ticaret) A response that solves a project or system issue by the use of alternate methods or a change in procedures in place of a program modification
[ 'w&rk ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English werk, work, from Old English werc, weorc; akin to Old High German werc work, Greek ergon, Avestan varandzem activity.