rigged
/ɹɪɡd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Prearranged and fixed so that the winner or outcome is decided in advance.
verb
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."
Etymology
From rig + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more rigged (comparative)
most rigged (superlative)