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The word "rigging" is correct and usable in written English.
"Rigging" is usually used to refer to the arrangement of sails and other equipment on a sailing vessel. For example, "The captain adjusted the rigging on the sailboat in preparation for the upcoming regatta."
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rigging
noun
Dress; tackle; especially , the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a sailing vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc.
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It has become the continent's productive powerhouse by rigging all economic relationships in its favour.
It was repeated throughout the show's three hours as a constant reminder to listeners that – whatever Barclays' staggeringly broad sins of the past (mis-selling, rigging interest rates, violating sanctions) – it is now firmly on the side of the angels.
When Barclays was slapped with a £290m fine for rigging Libor, the lid was raised on the unsavoury culture inside the high-street bank's investment banking arm.
Almost two years after being hit with a £290m fine for rigging the Libor rate, Barclays is now facing the wrath of regulators again, this time for almost 10 years of inadequate oversight of the setting of the price of gold, known as the fix.
One of its former traders was banned for rigging the gold price – on the very same day that Barclays was being hit with the Libor fine.
Barclays' chief executive, Antony Jenkins, who was promoted to replace Bob Diamond in the wake of the Libor rigging scandal, insisted the bank was already making changes to its culture to avoid such problems happening again.
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I have on file cases of Britons recently imprisoned for crimes as relatively mild as abusive tweeting, poll-rigging, Boat Race obstructing, cathedral desecrating, job-application falsifying, expenses fiddling, urinatingon a war memorial, speeding-point switching, licence fee non-paying, and googling in court.
The initial casus belli – vote-rigging in Falkirk – has proved to be a less clearcut case of machine politics than first imagined.
The case for helping new arrivals received a further blow this month after a junior minister was put under investigation over alleged contract-rigging at the Mineo migrant centre in Sicily.
But many fear that there might be attempts at ballot-rigging.
But independent investigations have uncovered evidence that millions of dollars earned from Zimbabwe's diamond fields were funnelled directly to Zanu-PF coffers rather than the national treasury, helping to fund its election campaign and potentially an elaborate vote-rigging exercise.
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