1 (medical) a medicine or medical treatment that reduces pain without curing its cause:
Aromatherapy can be used as a palliative.
2 (formal, usually disapproving) an action, a decision, etc. that is designed to make a difficult situation seem better without actually solving the cause of the problems:
Grants by themselves provide little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries.
palliative adjective [usuallybeforenoun]:
palliative treatment * short-term palliative measures
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