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jury-rig
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ju·ry-rig (jr-rg)
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.]


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Accordingly, as part of the jury-rigging to gain support for passage, many in Congress are pushing what amounts to corporate welfare to pay employers not to damp retirees into the new public entitlement.
Pay more, get less by Hoar, William P. / The New American
It really was a way of jury-rigging these machines to keep them operating on an absolute minimum of bottled water," said co-owner Crowe.
X-MEN by FINE, HOWARD / Los Angeles Business Journal
We recognize that there can be no jury-rigging of some standard office product or super-industrial product that would be inappropriate for this setting.
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