Rigged

/ɹɪɡd/ · adjective

Meaning

(figurative) Prearranged and fixed so that the winner or outcome is decided in advance..

Definitions by Sense

1. (figurative) Prearranged and fixed so that the winner or outcome is decided in advance.
2. (nautical, typically not comparable) Having the rigging up.
3. simple past and past participle of rig

Example Sentences

There was a vicious rumour that the final was rigged, as the defense seemed useless.

If these rates are rigged, markets are rigged — against bank customers, like everyday borrowers, and against parties on the other side of a bank’s derivatives deals, like pension funds.

Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has been re-elected by a landslide in an election described by the opposition as the most rigged contest in the four decades since the Sandinista leader first came to power.

The contemporary scandal, it is often said, is not that criminal corruption occurs but rather that the political system is legally rigged. It supposedly takes the form of campaign contributions that, Mr. Sanders says, enable corporations to “literally buy elections.”

We were ready to embark upon our journey now the vessel was rigged.

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• more rigged
• most rigged

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