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  • verb Present participle of rejigger.

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Examples

  • I scoffed, and not just because he would come at a hefty price tag that would totally blow away the City's contention that this rejiggering is based on REASONS OF ECONOMY -- that is, it should cost less to implement than the current arrangements.

    Policing Plainfield: Santiago to replace Santiago? Dan 2008

  • Silicon Valley firms that fought the change are planning a variety of gimmicks to soften the blow, such as rejiggering the numbers used to estimate the value of options.

    Calendar 2005

  • Silicon Valley firms that fought the change are planning a variety of gimmicks to soften the blow, such as rejiggering the numbers used to estimate the value of options.

    Calendar 2005

  • Without that bounce, AMD would likely fall prey to the summer "rejiggering" that often plagues processor-makers this time of year.

    AMD Gets Back-To-School Bounce 2006

  • Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said in October that rejiggering the bank's balance sheet with Operation Twist would bring longer-term rates down 0.20 percentage points.

    Fed Policy Delivers a Tonic for Stocks Cynthia Lin 2011

  • And by "efforts," I mean tinkering and rejiggering their policy towards satire.

    Georgetown talk: Pulitzer cartoonist MARK FIORE on the midterms, Meg Whitman & good ol' Mark Twain Michael Cavna 2010

  • Officials considered a range of actions—which included setting numerical targets for inflation and unemployment, rejiggering their holdings of Treasury securities and trying to push already-low short-term interest rates a little closer to zero, all with the purpose of boosting markets and economic growth.

    Economy Deeply Divides Fed Jon Hilsenrath 2011

  • While analysts are projecting a modest profit for 2011 — the airline doesn't offer guidance — American's recovery hinges on leveraging expanded alliances with overseas partners, rejiggering its domestic network and securing new deals with labor and third-party ticket sellers.

    AMR Plans for Flat Profits Doug Cameron 2011

  • Seems like the only likely source of deposits for all the 1st TARP Banks is the existing deposit base — would this mean a run on existing banks, probably focused on the already dicey ones, or an orderly movement of deposits across the system in a way that would allow an orderly rejiggering of dicey bank balance sheets, with shrinkage on the liability side matching writedowns on the asset side?

    Matthew Yglesias » Hidden Advantages 2009

  • As I write these words, I know that I could instead, with but the slightest rejiggering of mouse and keys, watch "South Park," juice up with some mixed martial arts on TV, read the latest Oliver Sacks article in the New Yorker, elbow in among my tweeps on Twitter, hurl angry birds on my smartphone, listen to and watch!

    Masters of Distraction Mark Changizi 2011

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