patch-up

• “This account of how he and other European leaders cobbled an uneasy pact to keep the euro zone from unraveling — a patch-up that continues to show signs of strain — was based on interviews with dozens of officials across the continent.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Currency Union Teetering, 'Mr. Euro' Was Forced to Act

• “A recent patch-up with an estranged ally may have prevented a possible fall of the government, but the ruling coalition is still hanging together by a thread.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Zardari Under Renewed Criticism for Trip Overseas

• “While European officials have pledged to deliver a stronger safety net for troubled euro members next month, Mr. Taylor of FX Concepts calls such moves another "patch-up.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hedge Funds Hurt by Bets Against Euro

• “These were patch-up jobs, though, on a career that was in clear decline.”

  Forbes: Being Beckham

• “The gaping cracks in the hillside foundation that ran up and down the uneven staircase like varicose veins have been filled in, the threads from my old patch-up caulking jobs paved over with a smooth frosting of flat, even concrete.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Madonnas of Echo Park

• “Satisfied with my patch-up job, I stuffed the antibiotic ointment back into the first-aid kit and returned it to the medicine cabinet.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Haunted

• “A lot of the cars being sold here are patch-up jobs that are towed in from up north for that purpose.”

  Driving from Brownsville to Merida

• “Sensors attached to key supports (in buildings/ships/aircraft … spaceships?), fed into a network, signalling strategically-placed repair stations to do a “patch-up”?”

  Battlestar Galactica: Self-Repairing Materials

• “After Copenhagen, which probably will be concluded with a patch-up accord, it will be vital to change paths from the one we've been on essentially since before Kyoto in 1997.”

  Jeffrey Sachs: End the Politics -- Let Scientists and Engineers Lead

• “Lea, meanwhile, had a stern talk with Nahid, who felt so bad that she offered up the name of the famous doctor who did the patch-up jobs, and life resumed its normal course.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dreaming in French

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