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Discover Ludwig"Band-Aid solution" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is often used to describe a temporary or superficial solution to a problem, similar to how a Band-Aid is used to quickly cover a wound but does not address the underlying issue. Example: "We need to come up with a long-term solution for our budget deficit, not just a Band-Aid solution to make it through the current fiscal year."
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Band-Aid solution
noun
A temporary solution.
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A pastry is a Band-Aid solution!
It's a Band-Aid solution, but it can work.
Mandatory minimums for gun crimes is a Band-Aid solution to a serious problem.
Peter Goldsmith, the president of the Long Island Software & Technology Network, called the legislation a Band-Aid solution.
By choosing to allow guns in our schools, we'd be putting a Band-Aid solution on a much deeper wound.
Perhaps a satisfactory middle ground in the Trump administration's eyes, this is simply a Band-Aid solution to legitimate criticism.
In answer to the question, he derided it as a "Band-Aid solution to the problem" of obesity.
For a classic Band-Aid solution, see the latest Republican proposal to freeze the pay of federal workers.
But the announcement also provides a band-aid solution to a key issue in marginal electorates in South Australia and Western Australia.
But he called paying overtime a "Band-aid solution" to a problem that could be resolved only by the allocation of more federal money to hire inspectors.
It taught Jones, he admitted, "not to do anything like a Band-Aid solution". For Jones, stability and Plan B are key ingredients.
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