prowizorka — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
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.
kludge — full definition
- noun An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design.
- noun Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
- noun An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
- noun A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack.