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fixed Verb

— Past tense of fix. The mechanic fixed my car. The mother fixed the broken toy. The meeting of Congress is fixed on January 3. — Something is fixed if it didn't work before, but now it works or has been repaired. Is your car fixed yet? — If an animal has been fixed, it had an operation to stop it from having babies. After a male cat is fixed, it doesn't fight with other cats as much. — If a game, contest, or election is fixed, somebody unfairly controls what will happen before it is over. Don't go to that casino, the roulette wheel is fixed. — Protected from arrest. Don't worry about it, we're fixed with the cops.

fixed Adjective

— Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same. fixed assets fixed cost

fixed

— adjective (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value — adjective (= set, rigid) fixed and unmoving with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare his bearded face already has a set hollow look — Connor Cruise O'Brien a face rigid with pain — adjective securely placed or fastened or set a fixed piece of wood a fixed resistor — adjective (= frozen) incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g frozen prices living on fixed incomes

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firm settled permanent immovable steady appointed stationary established stable set definite motionless certain rigid repaired constant steadfast placed intent fastened determined still prescribed immobile determinate special arranged unchanging unalterable specific solid regulated particular mended inflexible given frozen confirmed concentrated adjusted unswerving unmoving sure strong stick static stated stabilized seated renovated

Topics fixed topics

What do people use fixed to talk about?

Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Steady, unsteady

What words describe something that cannot move?

fixed immovable stuck jammed stiff won't budge can't budge something can't move immobile paralyzed stranded entangled caught bound permanent rooted entrenched established settled set

Physical actions Move

Not moving

What words describe something that cannot be moved?

immoveable fixed fast set permanent

Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

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Simple sentences

As soon as you have the car fixed, please send me a letter with the cost. I'll send you the money.

Tom fixed the broken watch.

This chair has to be fixed.

I am a flawed person, but these are flaws that can easily be fixed.

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that the problem is fixed.

You should get your car fixed.

The salary is fixed according to age and experience.

Everyone's eyes were fixed upon her.

Uncle Bob fixed my clock. It keeps good time now.

I must get the television fixed.

The meeting has been fixed for next week.

This game is fixed.

I think it will cost you more than 10,000 yen to have this camera fixed.

The race was fixed.

My car is being fixed now.

It cost me one thousand yen to get the bicycle fixed.

Now everything is fixed.

I want to have this cassette recorder fixed.

Why don't you have your motorcycle fixed up?

I fixed the bike yesterday.

I had my bicycle fixed yesterday.

Movie subtitles

You need to get this fixed.

All fixed up for the boat ride.

And outside the planetary spheres were the fixed stars arranged in a sky of their own.

Cos he didn't have no guns on him. He'd left his with Dutch Henry to be fixed.

I am, but Matt's all fixed up.

Mr. Leehman and I got it all fixed.

Everything fixed, Julio? - Yes.

We fixed him once before, and we can do it again.

He's got everything fixed.

Sure, you've fixed everything now.

It can't be fixed.

I thought I'd fixed it yesterday, but it needs more work.

Keep your eyes fixed on this light.

Keep them fixed.

Thought I was gonna end up living out there with the hill people until this Teddy bear of a man fixed me up at the local garage.

He left his'n with Dutch Henry to be fixed.

Well, that's fixed.

When are you gonna get that tooth fixed?

Oh, I fixed that too.

As soon as I get out, I'm gonna have it fixed.

How are you fixed?

That will be fixed, darling.

When will you get fixed up?

The country's taxes must be fixed.

I've got it all fixed.

Thought I was gonna end up living out there with the hill people, until this teddy bear of a man fixed me up at the local garage.

Not before I get it fixed.

Jerry, why don't you have it fixed?

Hey, I wonder how much it would cost to get this nose of mine fixed up.

What's the use of having it fixed when some guy will come along and unfix it?

So you had it fixed, eh?

IT'S BEING FIXED IN THE NEXT ROOM, AND I WAS COLD.

I see you get the place all fixed up.

Well, I fertilized and crossfertilized and experimented with crop after crop until the strain was fixed.

You fixed it with the big fella, didn't you?

News and current affairs

So he knew what was wrong and appreciated that it had to be fixed carefully and patiently, by engaging the staff rather than intimidating them.

He was, he now says, focusing on how fixed-rate mortgages are relatively bad deals for borrowers in times of low inflation, which was a mistake.

But even as short-term interest rates began to rise, the day of reckoning was postponed, as new borrowers could obtain fixed-rate mortgages at interest rates that were not increasing.

It is not just the reliability of the Suez Canal and oil exports that are now in doubt; decades of fixed strategic certainties must now be reexamined.

No one forced Argentina to adopt the currency board devised by Domingo Cavallo, the former economy minister, which pegged the peso to the dollar at a fixed exchange rate of one to one.

They fixed the exchange rate of the Argentina Peso at a value of one Peso per US dollar, and promised that the exchange rate would never change.

If the exchange rate is irrevocably fixed, that safety valve disappears.

Fourth, the IMF and others should stop peddling monetary mischief such as currency boards and fixed exchange rates.

By contrast, the financial crisis was hardly an advertisement for expanding the scope of fixed exchange rates.

For instance, the fuel efficiency of every automobile and truck is fixed, and most travel is non-discretionary.

In that year, Domingo Cavallo, who already held the post of Secretary of the Treasury, took the highly symbolic decision to fix the value of the peso to the dollar through a fixed exchange rate.

Given that low-income economies typically have little fixed capital (computers, factories, infrastructure) and human capital (education and training) per worker, they tend to have higher potential returns to capital investment.

Mobile phone use is already spreading rapidly in developing countries, making old-style fixed infrastructure unnecessary; data services can use the same system.

By contrast, the average level of fixed-line telecommunication penetration in developing countries is nearly 50 years behind the levels of the West.

That must be fixed, which requires that competitiveness become the central focus of longer-term US economic policy - the sooner, the better.

A multilateral deficit cannot be fixed by putting pressure on one of its bilateral components.

In the days of fixed commissions, investment banks could make a comfortable living booking stock trades.

The Argentine government fixed gas prices, despite ongoing inflation.

Rather than trying to mount a last-ditch defense of the fixed exchange rate, the government, at the suggestion of the Bank of England, agreed to abandon the gold standard and devalue the pound.

In the early 1970's, when the fixed exchange-rate regime came to an end, the IMF seemed to have outlived its function.

Created after WWII to finance temporary imbalances of the members of a fixed-exchange rate system, the IMF has been in search of a cause since the demise of the dollar exchange-rate system in 1971.

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