Synonyms for band-aid
ˈbændˌeɪdband-aid

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1. band-aidnoun

   Synonyms:
   hack, plaster, sticking plaster, Elastoplast, adhesive bandage

2. band-aidnoun

   To apply an adhesive bandage.

   As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.

   Synonyms:
   adhesive bandage, plaster, sticking plaster, hack, Elastoplast

3. band-aidverb

   To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

   Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

   Synonyms:
   hack, plaster, sticking plaster, Elastoplast, adhesive bandage

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1. List of paraphrases for "band-aid":

   bandage, dressing, gauze, plaster, tape

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1. Kasia Sawicka:

   Logistically speaking, if you think of a rapidly spreading pandemic, having the ability to vaccinate a large number of people is really the only way we know to date how to deal with it. If you need to train emergency personnel, that presents a problem. What if we had a way to vaccinate people by just telling them to stick on a Band-Aid? because the payload can be delivered to areas where it’s needed rapidly— no special handling required— then applied to the skin by someone whose sophistication is limited to that of applying a Band-Aid… it becomes possible to address these major challenges that have long bedeviled the health care profession in delivering vaccines to underserved areas.

2. Jack William Nicklaus:

   Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

3. Ted Seifried:

   They kind of ripped the Band-Aid off, that is an aggressive move from the USDA.

4. Jeffrey Hussey:

   We've been very grateful for the eviction moratorium, but it's nothing but a Band-Aid, we've been preparing for the end of the moratorium for months now. We know now that the Band-Aid is gone so many other systemic problems are going to reveal themselves : lack of affordable housing, lack of access to legal representation for tenants, lack of a roof over people's heads after eviction.

5. Joe Manchin:

   The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a vital piece of our nation’s infrastructure that bolsters our energy and national security, while the reserve has been a policy Band-Aid for rising gas prices and the global unrest caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the reserve is, above-all, meant to help the United States and our allies through difficult times, not to help China power its economy.