prowizorka — meaning in English

English meaning

kludge noun A rough, quickly built device made to check whether an idea works before a proper version is designed.
makeshift adj Put together quickly as a temporary, improvised solution.
stopgap noun Something used to fill or block a gap.

prowizorka is used for these senses in English:

kludge (informal) Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
makeshift A temporary (usually insubstantial) substitution.
one-off (idiomatic, Commonwealth) Something that is done, created, etc. only once, and often quickly, simply, or improvisationally.
stopgap A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.

noun A rough, quickly built device made to check whether an idea works before a proper version is designed.
noun A rough-and-ready method or object that solves a problem well enough for the time being.
noun A jumble of unrelated pieces stuck together into one thing.
noun (informal) A piece of computer software put together poorly or in a rush.