fixing

[ fik-sing ]

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that fixes.
2. fixings. Also fix·in's [] Informal.
   1. the necessary ingredients:

      salad fixings.

   2. the appropriate accompaniments; trimmings:

      turkey with all the fixings.

3. gold fixing.

fixing

/ ˈfɪksɪŋ /

noun

1. a means of attaching one thing to another, as a pipe to a wall, slate to a roof, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of fixing¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; fix, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

The charges included corruption, perjury, bid-fixing and fraud.

From The Daily Beast

His stories about his tenure in Washington hype his success in fixing housing problems in “inner cities.”

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But Uber failed to take any steps in fixing their civil rights problem.

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Both present alt cert in general—and TFA in particular—as a problem, as a project that urgently needs fixing.

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Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder is fixing small businesses, one brilliant idea at a time.

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Jos lifted himself on his elbow, and fixing his shining eyes on Ramona, said in Spanish, "My mother asks if you are travellers?"

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They combine the fixing with the staining process, and stain differentially every normal and abnormal structure in the blood.

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Fixing bayonets and leaving the sergeant dead in the doorway, they charged again into the mass of the enemy.

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In a city lot courses and distances play a larger part in fixing the boundaries, and are more carefully defined.

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Lastly, in fixing the loss the distinction between open and valued policies must be explained.

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