noun
Meaning 1
An improvised rigging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
jury-rig
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈdʒʊə.ɹi ɹɪɡ/
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US: /ˈdʒʊɹ.i ɹɪɡ/
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US: /ˈdʒɛɹ.i ɹɪɡ/
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verb
Meaning 2
To build an improvised rigging or assembly from whichever materials are available.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: nautical, transport
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To create a makeshift, ad hoc solution from resources at hand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: jerrybuild, kludge out, MacGyver
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To rig a jury; to engage in jury tampering, to improperly influence jurors, or the selection of jurors, such that they deliver a certain verdict.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From jury (“for temporary use, makeshift”, adjective) + rig. Likely modelled after jurymast. The phrase jury-rigged has been in use since at least 1788. The adjectival use of jury (“makeshift or temporary”), has been said to date from at least 1616, when according to the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it appeared in John Smith's A Description of New England. It appeared in Smith's more extensive The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles published in 1624.
See jury, rig.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: hätätakila — improvised rigging
- Finnish: hätäriki — improvised rigging
- French: gréement de fortune — improvised rigging
- German: Notlösung — improvised rigging
- German: Flickwerk — improvised rigging
- German: Bastelwerk — improvised rigging
- Polish: improwizacja — improvised rigging
- Finnish: tehdä hätätakila — to make an improvised rigging
- Polish: improwizować — to make an improvised rigging
- Polish: zaimprowizować — to make an improvised rigging
- Bulgarian: скалъпвам (skalǎpvam) — to create a makeshift solution
- Bulgarian: скалъпя (skalǎpja) — to create a makeshift solution
- Bulgarian: стъкмявам (stǎkmjavam) — to create a makeshift solution
- Bulgarian: стъкмя (stǎkmja) — to create a makeshift solution
- Finnish: tehdä viritys — to create a makeshift solution
- Finnish: virittää — to create a makeshift solution
- French: avec sa bite et son couteau — to create a makeshift solution
- German: zusammenstoppeln — to create a makeshift solution
- German: zusammenflicken — to create a makeshift solution
- German: improvisieren — to create a makeshift solution
- German: zusammenbasteln — to create a makeshift solution
- Hungarian: összetákol — to create a makeshift solution
- Polish: improwizować — to create a makeshift solution
- Polish: zaimprowizować — to create a makeshift solution
- Russian: сде́лать на скорую ру́ку (sdélatʹ) — to create a makeshift solution