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- noun An
increase orrise ; usually said ofprices ,fees , orrates . - adjective Characterized by, or utilizing jacks or
hydraulic lifts in the design (of a machine).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whenever a player would "jack-up" the opposition, Coach Rex Ryan would whoop and yell, "That's a guy who wants to make this team!"
Dave Zirin: In the NFL, The Violence Comes to a Head Dave Zirin 2010
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Whenever a player would "jack-up" the opposition, Coach Rex Ryan would whoop and yell, "That's a guy who wants to make this team!"
Dave Zirin: In the NFL, The Violence Comes to a Head Dave Zirin 2010
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"This amount will be spent on 10 new ships and two jack-up rigs," Managing Director A.R. Ramakrishnan said late Wednesday.
Essar Shipping Plans to Buy Vessels Anirban Chowdhury 2012
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Whenever a player would "jack-up" the opposition, Coach Rex Ryan would whoop and yell, "That's a guy who wants to make this team!"
Dave Zirin: In the NFL, The Violence Comes to a Head Dave Zirin 2010
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This frame is going to be used to jack-up the house and additional steel columns are going to be added on to the bottom of the frame to prop up the house (like stilts) on the inside perimeter of the footings.
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I was likewhat is she talking, I guess her speech writer was out on vacation becase that speech was jack-up and she know it was I hope she do not run in 2012
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Whenever a player would "jack-up" the opposition, Coach Rex Ryan would whoop and yell, "That's a guy who wants to make this team!"
Dave Zirin: In the NFL, The Violence Comes to a Head Dave Zirin 2010
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Whenever a player would "jack-up" the opposition, Coach Rex Ryan would whoop and yell, "That's a guy who wants to make this team!"
Dave Zirin: In the NFL, The Violence Comes to a Head Dave Zirin 2010
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Most incidents reported to the MMS take place in shallow water, either on "jack-up" rigs that stand on the sea floor or on small, often unmanned platforms that produce oil and gas from the thousands of wells in the Gulf drilled in the offshore industry's 60-year history.
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He warned of the consequences of ending deep water drilling in the Gulf: ships will go to Brazil and West Africa, as well as the consequences of halting work on the jack-up drills: local companies will not survive, and the state will lose 10 to 20,000 jobs.
ecbrenner commented on the word jack-up
"A drilling rig used offshore whose platform is a barge from which legs are lowered to the bottom when over the drill site and which is raised above the water and supported on the legs to conduct drilling operations" --Merriam-Webster Unabridged
December 1, 2009