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fix-it

or fix·it

[ fiks-it ]

/ ˈfɪksˌɪt /

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adjective Informal.

of, pertaining to, doing, or involving repairs, adjustments, or improvements: a fix-it shop; a political fix-it man.

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Words nearby fix-it

fixer, fixer-upper, fixie, fixing, fixings, fix-it, fixity, fix someone's wagon, fixt, fixture, fix-up

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Example sentences from the Web for fix-it

Further, there are maintenance crews who have to fix those drones.
Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at ‘Breaking Point,’ Air Force Says|Dave Majumdar|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
Slow Motion Tiger Jump, a Tornado at the Rose Bowl and More Viral Videos|The Daily Beast Video|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The bill, which passed Congress without opposition, is only a temporary fix and expires in 2015.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive|Ben Jacobs|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We need to “fix our schools,” even while recognizing that our efforts thus far are only works-in-progress.
Your Local School Doesn’t Have to Suck|Michael S. Roth|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And then it broke down, and the woman says, 'I'm sorry, but we have to fix the internet, so it's down for the rest of the flight.'
In Defense of Uber’s Awful Sydney Surge Pricing|Olivia Nuzzi|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To fix on any one stage in such an evolution, detach it, affirm it, is to wrest a true scripture to its destruction.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
Look till you fix them for the rest of your days well in memory, and then say what in the devil's name you could make of them.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
First I had better fix the sequence of the munition cables, for upon them the whole attack has hung—or rather, hung fire.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
"I'd have been in a pretty fix if he had finished my house, and I had tried to move my furniture into it," he muttered.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
Meadow Mouse was too well acquainted with old Mr. Crow to get himself into any such fix as that.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey

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