0 a way of dealing with a problem or making something work despite the problem, without completely solving it:
Back in the 1950s, such facilities were rare, often requiring an invariably cumbersome and often unsatisfactory workaround.
Nearly always, there is a workaround.
They spend more time on finding workarounds than on almost any other task.
A workaround is what the staff have to do to make the computer system get round a procedure that it was not designed to do in the first place.
For this reason, some wizards came up with a workaround, using some energy to warp reality itself or at least human perception of it.
The developers apologized for the glitch and offered a temporary workaround, however, saved games already lost to the glitch were not recoverable.
As a workaround for this problem the creation of institutional profiles has become popular.
There are unofficial download sites that also provide this workaround.
