Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for an adhesive bandage with a gauze pad in the center, employed to protect minor wounds. This trademark sometimes occurs in print in figurative uses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun trademark An adhesive bandage, composed of a short ribbon of cloth or plastic with an adhesive coating on one side, and having a patch of gauze at the center. It is used to cover small cuts, abrasions, or blisters on the skin, and may be easily applied to and removed from the skin with no additional material. Originally a trademark, the term has been popularly used generically.
- noun A hurried repair; a temporary fix for a minor problem.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun trade name for an adhesive bandage to cover small cuts or blisters
- noun hurried repair
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Examples
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"No Democrat will vote for a short-term Band-Aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now," Reid said.
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"No Democrat will vote for a short-term Band-Aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now," Reid said.
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"No Democrat will vote for a short-term Band-Aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now," he said.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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"No Democrat will vote for a short-term Band-Aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now," Reid said.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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You didn't even need a sober second look to determine that the move by the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Canada and others was a short-term Band-Aid.
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"No Democrat will vote for a short-term Band-Aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now," he said.
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"No Democrat will vote for a short-term Band-Aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now," he said.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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"It will be defeated," Reid predicted yesterday, calling Boehner's plan "a short-term Band-Aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now."
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"It will be defeated," Reid predicted, calling it "a short-term Band-Aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now."
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"No Democrat will vote for a short-term Band-Aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now."
jodi commented on the word Band-Aid
For IrE, use plaster instead.
March 31, 2011