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/ˈbændeɪd/ · noun
(Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound..
It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.
As a school nurse, Pat was used to band-aiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.
Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.
This is where the addictions theorists and therapists fail (perhaps for lack of nerve): they never strongly suggest that their critique should become the basis for concerted, collective therapy as well as individual therapy. They can't. To do so would mean risking their own dependency upon the system and upon the rewards they receive for band-aiding it.
Use band-aid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Band-aid means (Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound..
Common synonyms include adhesive bandage, Elastoplast, plaster, sticking plaster.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.
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