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rig

noun as in equipment

verb as in outfit, supply

verb as in arrange for certain outcome

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I’m building my 2003 Toyota Sequoia into an overlanding rig and wanted something that would hold my phone securely and display my screen while I navigated bumpy dirt roads.

The global oil market collapsed and California producers idled rigs, costing thousands of oil workers their livelihoods.

So we teamed up with Honda Talon, the ultimate family adventure rig, to create The Family Guide to Getting Outside—in an-depth and interactive article full of everything from easy-to-pull-off weeknight escapes to epic week-long road trips.

Given the ailing state of the oil industry, especially after the pandemic, it’s likely there will be rigs to be had for cheap.

That platform, called Odyssey, is a modified oil rig, but hasn’t seen a launch since 2014 and was relocated from Long Beach, California to Russia’s eastern seaboard earlier this year.

A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.

Blue Book on this rig is about $750,000, and we got it for nothing.

The son walked alongside the fire rig that bore the flag-covered coffin.

You do that to a certain extent with performance capture by the way you calibrate the model of Caesar—or the rig, as we call it.

What if a wind turbine could help make an oil rig work more efficiently?

Eve looked very pretty in her skating rig, and she was a splendid skater, too.

Smith: No, my lud—ve're the rig'lar chimbly sveeps vot sveeps his ludship's chimblys.

The rig drew up with a rush in front of the gate, and the two officers dropped out.

Instead of using the doctor's rig for the return to town, the officers appropriated the red roadster.

She hired a rig of a livery-stable keeper, who said he could not possibly take her beyond the Indian agency.

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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rig, such as: machinery, accouterments, apparatus, equipage, fittings, and fixtures.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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