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▪ I. ˈrejig, n.
[re- 5 c.]
Reorganization, rearrangement.
1965New Statesman 23 Apr. 630/1 The Sunday Citizen, for all its admitted demerits (which may yet be rectified if still another rejig..is accomplished effectively). 1974Guardian Weekly 10 Aug. 5/1 The idea of the late-night front page rejig is unknown.
▪ II. reˈjig, v.
[re- 5 c.]
trans. To refit or re-equip; to mend. Also fig., to rearrange, refashion, alter.
1948Daily Express 22 Apr. 1/6 Britain will send experts to help rejig French factories. 1958Spectator 2 May 558/1 To alter the period of the action [of Twelfth Night], to rejig the entrances and exits of the characters..is really a kind of forgery. 1962Economist 22 Sept. 1084/1 Schemes for rejigging the conditions of press competition. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Apr. 419/4 Current attempts to rejig Spanish sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature in terms of racial influences, art history, and so on. 1976A. White Long Silence iv. 34 Three [weeks]..he spent with Jean Duclerc, helping re-jig the wireless. 1979Economist 13 Oct. 81/3 Last year, faced with slower-than-expected increases in electricity demand, Hydro-Québec rejigged part of the project to reduce overall capacity.
Hence reˈjigged ppl. a.; reˈjigging vbl. n.
1960Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Sept. 635/3 The subject is fascinating and the setting never dull, and re-jigged (as the technicians say) it might make an enthralling story. 1969Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 1/1 Whitehall's structure will be considerably changed as a result of the Prime Minister's ‘rejigging’ of the machinery of government. 1972Guardian 15 June 15/2 Who will take over the re-jigged RIBA? 1977New Statesman 17 June 809/2 His rejigged Radio 4 Today programme is now packing the listeners in. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Feb. 152/1 This leads me to suggest that the industrial planning process needs re-jigging. |