jury-rigged

ju·ry-rig (j

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tr.v. ju·ry-rigged, ju·ry-rig·ging, ju·ry-rigs

To rig or assemble for temporary emergency use; improvise: The survivors of the wreck jury-rigged some fishing gear.

[From jury-rig, jury-rigging, improvised rigging on a ship, modeled on jury-mast, temporary mast, perhaps ultimately from Old French ajurie, help, from aider, to help; see aid.]

jury-rigged

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(Transport / Nautical Terms) Chiefly nautical set up in a makeshift manner, usually as a result of the loss of regular gear

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jury-rigged - done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"

improvised, makeshift

impermanent, temporary - not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"

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expedience
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jury-rig
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Neatness

That Hall's run by a one-armed goldbeater who keeps his treasure in this world, where moths & thieves & poets play, who applauds each time you turn back to its exhibits, to the ordinary places they're housed in-- those roadside chapels, the makeshift cairns beside the tracks, memorials to outlaws & saints jury-rigged out of lilies & rusted six-shooters .

Deep Image Hall of Fame by Wagenaar, Mark / West Branch

Congress made modest improvements in the Bush administration's jury-rigged system in the Military Commissions Act of 2006, but the military commission system still denies inmates many of the traditional protections of American law.

Shuttering Gitmo by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

Confidence in a new architecture cannot be jury-rigged, even by well-designed government actions.

Fed governor sees brave new finance world ahead by Geiger, Daniel / Real Estate Weekly

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