band-aid solutions
Quick, shallow repairs
Band-aid solutions are quick fixes that address symptoms rather than underlying problems.
The term suggests something superficial and temporary—adequate for minor issues but inadequate for serious ones.
Like the adhesive bandage brand, these solutions cover wounds without healing them: Raising the debt ceiling is just a band-aid solution to fiscal problems.
Often used critically to dismiss proposals as insufficient.
- quick fixHasty temporary solution
- damage controlLimiting further harm
- stopgapTemporary substitute measure
- finger in the dikeTemporary measure averting crisis
- expedientUseful if not ideal
holistic approach · sticking plaster · patches · makeshift · unintended consequences · symbolic gesture · provisionals · workaround · patchwork · impermanent · expedients · makeshifts · patchworks · inefficiency · surface-level · quick fixes · stopgaps · strategic planning
- bad decisionsprocrastination, impulse buying, overspending, binge eating, cramming
- safeguardssafeguards, safety valve, protections, kill switch, defenses
band-aid solutionssystemic change
Transformation affecting whole institutions
complete overhaul · paradigm shift · institutional reform · holistic approaches · New Deal
band, bands, banded, banding, bandage, bandages, bandaged, bandaging, aids