Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To jury-rig.
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- verb Common misspelling of
jury-rig .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If we really want to combine an economic boost and a progressive tax change, making the payroll tax progressive would be far easier and more effective than trying to jerry-rig a progressive consumption tax.
Matthew Yglesias » Making Consumption Taxes More Progressive 2010
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If we really want to combine an economic boost and a progressive tax change, making the payroll tax progressive would be far easier and more effective than trying to jerry-rig a progressive consumption tax.
Matthew Yglesias » Making Consumption Taxes More Progressive 2010
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I imagine COngress will do a combination of 3 things to jerry-rig SS for another 10 or so years.
Half of the country wants out of Social Security. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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In nautical terms, you need to come up with a "jury-rig," or "jerry-rig," as it is sometimes called.
Russell Bishop: Four Keys to Success in 2011 Russell Bishop 2010
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In nautical terms, you need to come up with a "jury-rig," or "jerry-rig," as it is sometimes called.
Russell Bishop: Four Keys to Success in 2011 Russell Bishop 2010
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He has to love a candidate before he'll jerry-rig his sound system.
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You also need to sort of jerry-rig the two together.
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In nautical terms, you need to come up with a "jury-rig," or "jerry-rig," as it is sometimes called.
Russell Bishop: Four Keys to Success in 2011 Russell Bishop 2010
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You also need to sort of jerry-rig the two together.
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Then she collected two-by-fours, little by little, until she had enough to jerry-rig a tiny house.2
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
arby commented on the word jerry-rig
I'm always getting confused about this vs. jury-rig - Bartleby sez this is just a variant spelling, probably based on jerry-build. I thought jury-rig meant specifically fixing a jury, not a makeshift shoddy contraption. But people seem to use the two interchangeably to mean the latter.
October 17, 2007