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jerry-rig
verb
Alternative spelling of jury-rig
Exact(16)
"They can jerry-rig pens to become needles.
"We look at everything, even if it's not suitable, to see if we can jerry-rig it.
"They are trying to jerry-rig entrenched systems, as opposed to building a Web-based transactional business, which is what Amazon did," she said.
And there have been many attempts to jerry-rig existing models to capture the financial shocks and their aftermath, especially once we had seen what that sort of reality looks like.
But there's no need to jerry-rig some kind of untested-except-kinda-in-Singapore catastrophic-plus-H.S.A.'s setup that might leave big gaps in coverage, since we already know that single-payer systems have by far the best track record in accomplishing the cost-reduction feat.
You also need to sort of jerry-rig the two together.
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Parts were swapped out, rescued, jerry-rigged.
Over the years, she's seen some crazy jerry-rigs: bungee cords, AstroTurf, plastic piping.
From these shards, Schrader has jerry-rigged an entirely new kind of movie.
Caleb Kraft, from the popular YouTube channel Make, jerry-rigged together a katana, a butane canister and a motorbike brake lever.
My new movie will play on my computer and iPod, but not my television without a lot of jerry-rigging.
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