Usually means: Assembled quickly with available materials.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word jury-rigged:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. jury-rigged: Merriam-Webster
  2. jury-rigged: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jury-rigged, jury-rigged: Collins English Dictionary
  4. jury-rigged: Vocabulary.com
  5. jury-rigged: Wordnik
  6. jury-rigged: Wiktionary
  7. jury-rigged: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Jury-rigged, jury-rigged: Dictionary.com
  9. Jury-rigged: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Jury-rigged: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. jury-rigged: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. jury-rigged: Rhymezone
  13. Jury-rigged: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. jury-rigged: FreeDictionary.org
  15. jury-rigged: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. jury-rigged: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. jury-rigged: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jury-rigged)

▸ adjective:  Improvised from whichever material is available.

Similar:
improvised, temporary, impermanent, makeshift, scratch, scratch-built, makeshifty, jerry-built, shake and bake, scantlinged, more...

Opposite:
properly-engineered, well-constructed

Types:
makeshift, improvised, temporary, emergency, more...

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Similar:
improvised, temporary, impermanent, makeshift, scratch, scratch-built, makeshifty, jerry-built, shake and bake, scantlinged, more...

Opposite:
properly-engineered, well-constructed

Types:
makeshift, improvised, temporary, emergency, more...



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