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  • verb Present participle of rejig.

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Examples

  • Going back and rejigging from the beginning slammed the brakes on, obviously, but the big mental squishiness due to knowing stuff wasn't right has now lifted.

    Flying update ... and a request karenmiller 2008

  • One concrete idea she would like to pursue, if elected, is "rejigging" the Transit City plan and turn the new lines into subways.

    Toronto Sun 2010

  • Hansen told me in December that there would be little time for "rejigging" the province's books following the Jan. 27 federal budget.

    Kootenay Rockies - News 2009

  • Manuel said there was room for some "rejigging" of policies that had not succeeded, without giving details.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2008

  • Abandoning, deferring and rejigging projects because of perennial crises facing the defence budget "creates incoherence, uncertainty and delays", adding to long-term costs, says the report.

    Auditor attacks chaos in equipping British troops 2011

  • The need for a strong identity became even more important this season following the IPL's controversial decision to re-auction nearly all of the available players, completely rejigging team lineups that had just begun to gel, in a league where franchises already risk looking like assemblages of disparate individuals grafted at random onto a city, rather than real, cohesive teams.

    This Is the Old Guys' IPL Richard Lord 2011

  • A dash of dioxin poisoning here, perhaps, a spot of Kremlin aid to supportive parties and a gentle rejigging to funding rules for NGOs there, or chewing up US bromides about the rule of law and free elections and spitting them out over Chechnya and, really, you're halfway back to glory already.

    TV review: We'll Take Manhattan; David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating; Putin, Russia and the West 2012

  • He has never bored of it, messing around apparently endlessly with tyres, rejigging qualification over and over again, fiddling on with aerodynamics and banning everything from launch controls to automatic gearboxes all with the express intention of making the sport more exciting and getting people like myself to chunter: Bloody typical: just when I finally worked out what data downlink telemetry does, they get rid of it.

    Introducing Bernie the mogul's next blockbuster: Star Wars F1? | Harry Pearson 2011

  • Perhaps this situation is getting a much needed rejigging if others feel the way about Peach, but just this week Max and Caroline auditioned for jobs as cleaners in Sophie Jennifer Coolidge's cleaning business.

    Cassandra Scrimgeour: 2 Broke Girls: The Good, the Bad and the Hope of Love Cassandra Scrimgeour 2012

  • André Ayew, Jordan's older brother and one of the few consistent Marseille performers this season, dazzled on the wing; Lucho González, the Argentinian playmaker who shone last season but has struggled this term, began to find his passing range; and Deschamps's tactical rejigging in response to recent poor form worked.

    Marseille's 5ft 4in Mathieu Valbuena could be big at Manchester United 2011

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