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work-around

work-around is the alternative form of workaround.

Meaning of workaround

Noun

workaround (plural workarounds)

  1. (idiomatic) A means or method of circumventing an obstacle, particularly one arising from constraints, laws or regulatory requirements.
    • More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020
  2. A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.
    Synonyms:
    kludge, kluge
  3. (project management) An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.

Forms of work-around

pluralwork-arounds

Questions about work-around

What is work-around the alternative form of?
Work-around is the alternative form of workaround.

Words near work-around in the dictionary

  1. work zone
  2. work zones
  3. work'd
  4. work-a-day
  5. work-alike
  6. work-around
  7. work-arounds
  8. work-athon
  9. work-athons
  10. work-brittle
  11. work-camp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: work-around (page history and authors); workaround (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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