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• present participle of fix.

fixing

American  

[fik-sing] / ˈfɪk sɪŋ /

noun

• fixings
  plural

1. the act of a person or thing that fixes.

2. Informal. fixings. Also fixin's

   1. the necessary ingredients.

      salad fixings.

   2. the appropriate accompaniments; trimmings.

      turkey with all the fixings.

3. gold fixing.

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fixing British  

/ ˈfɪksɪŋ /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• fixings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of fixing

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

fixing fixings

In response, Chaudhry adjusted the priorities of his engineering team for about three months, with a focus on fixing critical and high-level vulnerabilities superseding the delivery of new functionality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Surgery can repair the torn ligament, but fixing the immediate injury does not necessarily prevent long-term joint damage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Naval Academy, having deemed GPS dependable, stopped teaching midshipmen celestial navigation—the discipline of fixing a ship’s position based on timed sightings of the sun and the stars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Sometimes the operators already know about the leaks and are fixing them when the state air agency contacts them, according to the state’s dashboard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

My fury might have been squashed thanks to Dad’s skills of fixing Fig’s DVD with some glass cleaner, cloth, and toothpaste, but the damage was done.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

However, they added that a rapid strengthening for the yuan, also known as the renminbi, remains unlikely as authorities have consistently signaled restraint by setting recent fixings at weaker levels than market expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

And while inflation traders expect the annual headline CPI rate to peak at 2.8% in May, they also see it drifting below that level through year-end, based on derivative-like instruments known as fixings.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026

Gilberto, now with a clean cut, ate a traditional Thanksgiving meal with turkey, gravy, rolls and other fixings outside the mission on a warm fall day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025

Chief content officer Erin Keane’s local Mexican spot, El Nopal, serves such generous portions that she’s often left with rice, beans and fixings.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2025

After we’re done dishing out turkey dinners with all the holiday fixings, we eat dinner at my house.

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson