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单词 rejig
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rejign.

Brit. /ˌriːˈdʒɪɡ/, U.S. /riˈdʒɪɡ/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rejig v.
Etymology: < rejig v.
Reorganization, rearrangement; an instance of this, a restructuring. Cf. reshuffle n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [noun]
reworking?1608
remodelling1785
refashioning1799
refashionment1829
remodelment1838
recast1841
réchauffage1847
reshaping1872
rejigging1884
rejiggering1920
re-profiling1962
rejig1965
the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something > reorganization
reorganization1751
reassortment1767
rearrangement1778
restructure1811
remaniement1825
reorg1859
reformulation1884
rejigging1884
realignment1896
restructuring1932
restructuration1939
shake-out1939
rejig1965
1965 New 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).
1974 Guardian Weekly 10 Aug. 5/1 The idea of the late-night front page rejig is unknown.
1983 Times 2 July 5/5 The great successes include..a courageous and fascinating rejig of ‘Wichita's’ complicated sonic montage.
1997 Investors Chron. 19 Sept. 63/3 A rejig of its disparate businesses into a divisional structure should also help the workings of the group as a whole.
2002 Empire Dec. 76/2 Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle's The 51st State finally makes it over to the US of A, with a little rejig.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rejigv.

Brit. /ˌriːˈdʒɪɡ/, U.S. /riˈdʒɪɡ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, jig v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + jig v. With sense 2 compare earlier rejigger v.
1. transitive. To jig (ore) again (see jig v. 5).
ΚΠ
1848 W. W. Smyth in Mem. Geol. Surv. Great Brit. II. ii. 677 ‘Ragging’, re-jigged once or twice, and re-divided according to circumstances.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 439 The fine material passing through the revolving screen is further concentrated on percussion-tables.., or is rejigged on the extra three-sieved jigging machine.
1912 Tyrone (Pa.) Herald 21 Mar. The ore washers at Scotia have been kept in operation..washing and rejigging the dump that has accumulated there.
1920 J. P. D. Hull Rep. Barytes Deposits Georgia 90 Hutch from 1st cell rejigged.
1973 Q. Colo. Sch. Mines Oct. 124 The fines from the cleaner jig are removed in a dewatering classifier and the sand product passes to a rod mill and is then rejigged.
2. transitive. To rearrange, refashion, or alter, esp. so as to make better or to adapt for a particular purpose (originally and frequently in technical contexts); to refit or re-equip; to mend, fix.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > fashion anew [verb (transitive)]
reforge1542
unfashion1569
to make over1582
refashion1613
remodel1660
remake1766
recast1790
new-dress1795
rework1837
rejigger1899
rejig1948
jigger1961
the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > give structure to or organize > reorganize
reorganize1686
recompose1798
reformulate1869
realign1910
restructure1932
rejig1948
reorg1989
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [verb (transitive)]
beetc975
menda1200
amenda1250
rightc1275
botcha1382
reparela1382
cure1382
repaira1387
dighta1400
emend1411
to mend up1479
restablishc1500
help1518
trimc1520
redub1522
reparate1548
accommodate1552
reinstaure1609
reconcinnate1623
to do up1647
righta1656
fixa1762
doctor1829
vamp1837
service1916
rejig1976
1948 Daily Express 22 Apr. 1/6 Britain will send experts to help rejig French factories.
1958 Spectator 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.
1976 A. White Long Silence iv. 34 Three [weeks]..he spent with Jean Duclerc, helping re-jig the wireless.
1996 Times 13 Nov. 38/4 The piece has now been much rejigged and, in my view, significantly improved.
2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Dec. 81/3 A little later, Rickman..rejigged his presentation somewhat, in a book that came to be known as Rickman's Gothic Architecture.

Derivatives

reˈjigged adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [adjective]
new-dressed1653
remodelled1798
recast1816
rejigged1966
makeover1977
the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > relating to organization > organized > reorganized
reorganized1812
restructured1936
rejigged1966
1966 Times 5 Feb. 4/5 Chelsea—at full strength against a rejigged Fulham side reinforced by Leggatt at outside right—have quietly crept up to sixth position.
1993 Wire Feb. 20/1 Today, Donatoni..has done it all: Bartokian rhapsody, serialism, chance-music and now a kind of rejigged classicism streaked with minimalist flash.
reˈjigging n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [noun]
reworking?1608
remodelling1785
refashioning1799
refashionment1829
remodelment1838
recast1841
réchauffage1847
reshaping1872
rejigging1884
rejiggering1920
re-profiling1962
rejig1965
the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something > reorganization
reorganization1751
reassortment1767
rearrangement1778
restructure1811
remaniement1825
reorg1859
reformulation1884
rejigging1884
realignment1896
restructuring1932
restructuration1939
shake-out1939
rejig1965
1884 Ann. Rep. Commissioner for Mneral Statistics Michigan 80 In the Hecla mill there will be 168 Collum jigs for dressing and 96 for rejigging.
1936 Ruston (Louisiana) Daily Leader 24 Nov. 4/2 The..amendments were blocked entirely at one session and passed at the next only after extensive rejigging.
1969 Daily 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.
2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Apr. 32/3 Despite selling well at first, contemporaries tended to dismiss it as a hasty rejigging of Charles Jarvis′s 1742 edition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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