Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to jury-rig
Participle: jury-rigged
Gerund: jury-rigging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | jury-rig |
| you | jury-rig |
| he;she;it | jury-rigs |
| we | jury-rig |
| you | jury-rig |
| they | jury-rig |
Perfect
| I | have jury-rigged |
| you | have jury-rigged |
| he;she;it | has jury-rigged |
| we | have jury-rigged |
| you | have jury-rigged |
| they | have jury-rigged |
Past
| I | jury-rigged |
| you | jury-rigged |
| he;she;it | jury-rigged |
| we | jury-rigged |
| you | jury-rigged |
| they | jury-rigged |
Pluperfect
| I | had jury-rigged |
| you | had jury-rigged |
| he;she;it | had jury-rigged |
| we | had jury-rigged |
| you | had jury-rigged |
| they | had jury-rigged |
Future
| I | will jury-rig |
| you | will jury-rig |
| he;she;it | will jury-rig |
| we | will jury-rig |
| you | will jury-rig |
| they | will jury-rig |
Future Perfect
| I | will have jury-rigged |
| you | will have jury-rigged |
| he;she;it | will have jury-rigged |
| we | will have jury-rigged |
| you | will have jury-rigged |
| they | will have jury-rigged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | jury-rig |
| you | jury-rig |
| he;she;it | jury-rig |
| we | jury-rig |
| you | jury-rig |
| they | jury-rig |
Perfect
| I | have jury-rigged |
| you | have jury-rigged |
| he;she;it | have jury-rigged |
| we | have jury-rigged |
| you | have jury-rigged |
| they | have jury-rigged |
Imperfect
| I | jury-rigged |
| you | jury-rigged |
| he;she;it | jury-rigged |
| we | jury-rigged |
| you | jury-rigged |
| they | jury-rigged |
Pluperfect
| I | had jury-rigged |
| you | had jury-rigged |
| he;she;it | had jury-rigged |
| we | had jury-rigged |
| you | had jury-rigged |
| they | had jury-rigged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would jury-rig |
| you | would jury-rig |
| he;she;it | would jury-rig |
| we | would jury-rig |
| you | would jury-rig |
| they | would jury-rig |
Perfect
| I | would have jury-rigged |
| you | would have jury-rigged |
| he;she;it | would have jury-rigged |
| we | would have jury-rigged |
| you | would have jury-rigged |
| they | would have jury-rigged |
Imperative
| you | jury-rig |
| we | Let's jury-rig |
| you | jury-rig |
Verbs conjugated like 'jury-rig'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'jury-rig'
jerry-rig,
dry-rub,
jig-jig,
jury,
outrig,
prerig,
re-nig,
rerig,
retrig,
unrig,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to build or use a temporary solution
- bodge, cludge, cobble together, kludge, kluge, knock together, knock up, MacGyver, make-do, patch, patch-up
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From jury (“for temporary use, makeshift”, adjective) + rig. Likely modelled after jurymast.
2. The phrase jury-rigged has been in use since at least 1788. The adjectival use of jury (“makeshift or temporary”), has been said to date from at least 1616, when according to the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it appeared in John Smith's A Description of New England. It appeared in Smith's more extensive The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles published in 1624.
Sample Sentences
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The next day it moderated, and the day after the weather was quite fine, and the sea had gone down. We recovered our spirits, the more so as we heard no more of the cat; and having jury-rigged her aft, we steered our course with a light breeze. [1840, [Frederick] Marryat, Poor Jack. […], London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC:]
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In fact, he and his friends had kicked the idea around on the "Black Ice" board, much as they had discussed many other nifty notions, such as building personal flame-throwers and jury-rigging fistfulls of blasting-caps. [1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown […] , Bantam Books, →ISBN:]
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Tech behemoths are jury-rigging AI features into their products to avoid being disrupted—but these rollouts, and Apple’s in particular, have been disastrous, giving dangerous health advice, butchering news summaries, and generally crowding and slowing user experiences. [2025 May 22, Matteo Wong, “OpenAI’s Ambitions Just Became Crystal Clear”, in The Atlantic:]