Term: crutch: anything that serves as an expedient
Candidate hypernym: means: how a result is obtained or an end is achieved → 1
Candidate hypernym: employee stock ownership plan: a program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company → 0
Candidate hypernym: staleness: having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging → 0
Candidate hypernym: man-made fiber: fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes → 0
Candidate hypernym: totalitarian state: a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures → 0
Candidate hypernym: crazy glue: a commercial brand of epoxy glue → 0
Candidate hypernym: unison: (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: jacket: the outer skin of a potato → 0
Candidate hypernym: butterfly flower: shrub or small tree of Dutch Guiana having clusters of pink flowers streaked with purple → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydromancy: divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides) → 0
Candidate hypernym: pennant: a flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering) → 0