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Workaround vs Remedy - What's the difference?

workaround | remedy |

As nouns the difference between workaround and remedy

is that workaround is a means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of laws, regulations, or constraints while remedy is something that corrects or counteracts.

As a verb remedy is

to provide or serve as a remedy for.

workaround

English

Noun

(wikipedia workaround) (en noun)
  • A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of laws, regulations, or constraints.
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  • (computing) A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows the user to continue working until a better solution can be provided; a kluge.
  • (project management) An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.

    • See also

    * kludge * kluge * quick fix * stopgap

    remedy

    English

    (wikipedia remedy)

    Noun

    (remedies)
  • Something that corrects or counteracts.
  • (legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

    Derived terms

    * remediless

    Verb

  • To provide or serve as a remedy for.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
    • Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
    Synonyms
    * redress * help * correct * cure * See also

    Related terms

    * remediable * remedial

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