quick fix

noun

: an expedient usually temporary or inadequate solution to a problem

Examples of quick fix in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web No quick fix Fort Lauderdale is in the midst of a five-year, $200 million plan to improve drainage in seven of the city’s most flood-prone areas: Edgewood, River Oaks, Dorsey Riverbend, Durrs, Progresso, Victoria Park and Southeast Isles. Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024 Repair won't be a quick fix or an easy endeavor Around 70 feet below the park grounds where the sinkhole occurred is the stormwater outfall pipe that drains between 15% and 20% of the village's stormwater into Lake Michigan. Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2024 Opponents also say that simply talking about solar geoengineering creates a dangerous impression that quick fixes for climate change are available. Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 10 June 2024 What lies behind the absence of a constructive Israeli national security agenda, however, is neither illogic nor confusion but rather a belief that there are currently no solutions to the challenges the country faces and that seeking quick fixes to intractable problems is dangerously naive. Natan Sachs, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2015 See all Example Sentences for quick fix 

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Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of quick fix was in 1966

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“Quick fix.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quick%20fix. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

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