"fix-up" meaning in English

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        "2": "fix up"
      },
      "expansion": "Deverbal from fix up",
      "name": "deverbal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from fix up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fix-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "fix-up (plural fix-ups)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "_dis": "73 27",
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        },
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          "_dis": "56 44",
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A repair; an act of mending."
      ],
      "id": "en-fix-up-en-noun-Ztfu7X0l",
      "links": [
        [
          "repair",
          "repair"
        ],
        [
          "mend",
          "mend"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "fixer-upper"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "fixup"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II, Univ. Press of Mississippi, page 214",
          "text": "In The Martian Chronicles (1950), another fix-up novel, Ray Bradbury returns time and again to the trope of the abandoned city, as mass migrations from town to country and from one planet to another render cities obsolete.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A novel created from (possibly unrelated, and possibly previously published) pieces of short fiction."
      ],
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          "short",
          "short"
        ],
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          "fiction",
          "fiction"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fix-up"
}

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    "English deverbals",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
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        "2": "fix up"
      },
      "expansion": "Deverbal from fix up",
      "name": "deverbal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from fix up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fix-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fix-up (plural fix-ups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fixer-upper"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A repair; an act of mending."
      ],
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        [
          "repair",
          "repair"
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        [
          "mend",
          "mend"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
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          "short",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fixup"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fix-up"
}