jury-rigged
Speech parts
1. jury-rigged - Adjective
2. jury-rigged - Verb
3. jury-rigged - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Rigged for temporary service. See Jury, a.
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crossed the river on improvised bridges
the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear
the rock served as a makeshift hammer
The jury-rigged cooling water system successfully reduced the temperature in the reactor.
Sacrificing their own lives, the engineering crew jury-rigged a secondary coolant system and kept the reactor from a meltdown.
Pinned down by a fierce storm, they escaped death by breathing oxygen from a jury-rigged set-up during the night.