/wərk-ə-rau̇nd/
n. A temporary kluge inserted in a system under development or test in order to avoid the effects of a bug or misfeature so that work can continue. Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by fixes; in practice, customers often find themselves living with workarounds in the first couple of releases.
"The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I fixed it to interpret them as spaces."
"That's not a fix, that's a workaround!"