Meaning

One who rigs or dresses; as:.

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1. One who rigs or dresses; as:
2. A worker on an oil rig.
3. One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).
4. A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
5. (in combination) A ship with a certain type of rigging.
6. A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
7. (New Zealand) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.
8. A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.

Example Sentences

The real riggers of electoral boundaries in New South Wales were those who got loose after 1965. When the boys from George Street and Ash Street got loose there was a majority in the Parliament. That is when there was a redistribution […]

An election rigger who assumes illegitimate political power would be primarily motivated to spread their corrosive toxins across the political system, thus rendering institutions of government dysfunctional and convoluted.

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Use rigger when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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