Band-Aid

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Band-Aid

(bănd′ād′)
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: "True welfare reform is being bypassed for Band-Aid solutions" (Los Angeles Times)."These measures are mere Band-Aids" (U.S. News & World Report).
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Band-Aid

(ˈbændˌeɪd)
n
1. (Medicine) trademark a gauze surgical dressing backed by adhesive tape
2. (sometimes not capitals) informal something that provides a temporary solution to a problem
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Band-Aid

(ˈbændˌeɪd)
1. Trademark. an adhesive bandage with a gauze pad in the center, used to cover minor abrasions and cuts.
n.
2. (often l.c.) a makeshift, limited, or temporary aid or solution.
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Translations

Band-Aid

® [ˈbændeɪd] N (esp US) → tirita f (Sp), curita f (LAm)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Band-Aid®

band-aid [ˈbændeɪd]
(mainly US) n (= plaster) → pansement m (adhésif)
modif (= cosmetic) [approach] → peu durable, superficiel(le); [solution] → de fortune
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Band-Aid®

(US)
nHeftpflaster nt
adj (also band-aid) (inf: = makeshift) solution etcbehelfsmäßig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Band-Aid

® [ˈbændˌeɪd] n (Am) → cerotto
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

Band-Aid®

(ˈband eid) noun
(American) (a piece of) sticking plaster with a dressing used to cover a wound etc. You should put a Band-Aid on that cut.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

Band-Aid

جِبْس, لاصق من نوع إلاستوبلاست ®, لَصْقَة leukoplast, náplast plaster Hansaplast®, Heftpflaster, Pflaster γύψος, Επίδεσμος Band-Aid, επίδεσμος Elastoplast® curita, Elastoplast, tirita, tiritas laastari pansement flaster cerotto, Elastoplast® エラストプラスト®, バンドエイド, 絆創膏 반창고, 일라스토플라스트 Elastoplast®, pleister plaster opaska elastyczna, plaster, plaster z opatrunkiem Band-Aid®, marca de esparadrapo, penso rápido гипс, пластырь «Бэнд-эйд», пластырь Elastoplast® plåster ผ้าพลาสเตอร์, พลาสเตอร์, พลาสเตอร์ปิดแผล plaster, yara bandı băng dán vết thương, băng dính y tế, băng keo cá nhân 创可贴, 弹性绷带, 邦迪
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

Band-Aid

n. pop. curita; parche.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

Band-Aid

n (marca) V. small adhesive bandage bajo bandage.
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive ?
He explained that he has grown sick and tired of only having bandaid solutions to the problem of flooding in the city.
"So far, the changes we have seen have been introduced in what I would call a 'bandaid' manner.
Addressing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Greenblatt claimed that UNRWA had been a "bandaid" and that it was time to hand over services assured by the refugee agency to those countries hosting the Palestinian Arab refugees.
National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) secretary-general Harry Tan said forcing non-English language teachers to sit for an examination on the language is a bandaid that will not solve the main problem of insufficient specialists.
When a pharmacologic intervention is touted as the solution for PPD, mothers and advocates alike should consider if the drug is a BandAid on the larger wound of America's treatment of mothers.
In second place with 3.8 million singles is the 1984 BandAid charity Christmas track, Do They Know It's Christmas, ahead of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, which sold 2.5 million copies.
BandAid Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 4.93m sales 3.8m sales 2.5m sales REACHING number one in the charts is one of the most coveted musical achievements in British radio, but which single has been the most successful to date?
As a city, we should be dear on whether we are mortgaging our future for a bandaid today."
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"I hear a lot of people say, 'It's a BandAid for a bullet wound.' Nothing that has been implemented there could have prevented the shooting from happening at our school," she argues.
'Incentives should not be used as a bandaid solution.