{i} manner of bypassing a problem caused by a bug without correcting the bug itself (Computers)
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
A manual procedure implemented in order to overcome a shortcoming of a program or piece of equipment
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!"
A temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows the user to continue working until a better solution can be provided; a kluge
(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