Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To rig or assemble for temporary emergency use; improvise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a temporary rig when the permanent rig has been disabled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to rig for temporary service; to construct flimsily and in makeshift fashion. See
jury , a.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb nautical, transitive To make an
improvised rigging orassembly fromwhatever isavailable . - verb transitive To create a
makeshift ,ad hoc solution from resourcesat hand . - noun nautical An improvised rigging.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was nice to be able to be generous with time, and not have to be rushing to jury-rig things.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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I did manage to get HU comments delivered to my email account with a jury-rig setup involving FeedDemon and the Mozilla email client.
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It was nice to be able to be generous with time, and not have to be rushing to jury-rig things.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Buddy and his crew know how to jury-rig it themselves, and soon the cookie line is up and running again.
Who Needs an MBA When We Have 'Dog the Bounty Hunter'? Eric Felten 2011
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Wolfe recalled how he and Dr. Goetzmann decided to spice up the social life for the doctoral students by having them get together, jury-rig their own rickshaws, and have plenty of gin on hand for race day motivation.
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As part of the event, the 20-somethings had to jury-rig their rickshaws for the competition.
Pulitzer-winning historian William Goetzmann dies at 80 2010
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But after watching BP's efforts to jury-rig a huge upside-down funnel over the spill, and learning just how long it will take to drill a relief well that BP had previously promised could be started "in a few days," it seems to me that what's really like "open-heart surgery in the dark" is deepwater drilling for oil itself.
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After a rough boat trip out and a jury-rig for our maimed 15hp engine, we were psyched to arrive inside the small reef surrounding Magaruque Island.
Archive 2008-10-01 jen 2008
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After watching BP's efforts to jury-rig a huge upside-down funnel over the spill, it seems to me that what's really like "open-heart surgery in the dark" is deepwater drilling for oil itself.
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He rails against standardized curricula and shows how unstructured classroom time can allow for priceless discoveries, like when he facilitated an impromptu mission to jury-rig a ramp so his kindergarten class turtle could climb a level of stairs.
Dan Brown: Bill Ayers is Back... with a Brilliant Graphic Novel 2010
arby commented on the word jury-rig
To rig or assemble for temporary emergency use; improvise: The survivors of the wreck jury-rigged some fishing gear.
ETYMOLOGY: From jury-rigging, improvised rigging on a ship, modeled on jury-mast, temporary mast, perhaps ultimately from Old French ajurie, help, from aider, to help.
October 17, 2007
frindley commented on the word jury-rig
Not to be confused with jerry-built.
May 9, 2011