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jugaad

जुगाड़joo-GAAD[dʒʊˈɡaːɽ]

a clever, cheap fix with whatever is to hand — a hack

Closest in English: hack, workaround, jury-rig. None of them covers it.

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The story

The classic jugaad is the village truck built around an irrigation-pump engine, road-legal nowhere and indispensable everywhere. Business schools have dressed the mindset up as frugal innovation. Plain English keeps a shorter word for it: a hack.

How it went in the game

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  1. Which language is it from?Hindi
  2. Who says it most?A mechanic in a Delhi side street
  3. Where would you hear it?A washing machine run off a bicycle
  4. What does it mean?A clever fix from whatever's around

How it went

Round three, situation, was where most points went.

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