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jury-rigged

jury-rigged adjective: improvised from whichever material is available. Also the simple past and past participle of jury-rig.

Adjective

jury-rigged (comparative more jury-rigged, superlative most jury-rigged)

  1. Improvised from whichever material is available.
    Synonyms:
    makeshift

Also used as

jury-rigged is also the simple past and past participle of jury-rig.

Synonyms of jury-rigged

Forms of jury-rigged

comparativemore jury-rigged
superlativemost jury-rigged

Origin of jury-rigged

From jury-rig + -ed.

Words formed from jury-rigged

Questions about jury-rigged

What does jury-rigged mean?
Jury-rigged means improvised from whichever material is available.
What part of speech is jury-rigged?
Jury-rigged is an adjective.

Words near jury-rigged in the dictionary

  1. jury trial
  2. jury trials
  3. jury-mast
  4. jury-masts
  5. jury-rig
  6. jury-rigged
  7. jury-rigging
  8. jury-rigs
  9. juryes
  10. jurying
  11. juryless

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