English Explanatory Dictionary

XY problem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A communication problem where a person seeking help (for example, from a computing helpdesk) provides misleadingly incomplete information about the source of the problem and thus receives inaccurate or unhelpful suggestions about how to fix it.

Word forms

XY problem XY problems
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