Fixing may refer to:
* The present participle of the verb "to fix", an action meaning
maintenance, repair, and operations
The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure and supporting utilities in industrial, business, and residential installat ...
* "fixing someone up" in the context of arranging or finding a social date for someone
* "Fixing", craving an
addictive drug
Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. Repetitive drug use can ...
, hence "getting your fix" or "jonesing" (from the 1960s)
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Match fixing
In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, rigging, hippodroming, or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, v ...
, to illegally predetermine the outcome of a sporting event or other contest, also can be referred to as "the fix" as in the common phrase "the fix is in"
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Price fixing
Price fixing is an anticompetitive agreement between participants on the same side in a market to buy or sell a product, service, or commodity only at a fixed price, or maintain the market conditions such that the price is maintained at a given ...
, an agreement between business competitors to sell the same product or service at the same price
Science and medicine
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Spaying and neutering
Neutering, from the Latin ('of neither sex'), is the removal of a non-human animal's reproductive organ, either all of it or a considerably large part. The male-specific term is castration, while spaying is usually reserved for female animals. Co ...
, often called "fixing" or the sterilization of an animal
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Fix (disambiguation)
Fix or FIX may refer to:
People with the name
* Fix (surname)
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Fix'' (film), a feature film by Tao Ruspoli Music
* ''Fix'' (album), 2015 album by Chris Lane
* "Fix" (Blackstreet song), 1997 song by Blac ...
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Fixation (disambiguation)
Fixation may refer to:
* Carbon fixation, a biochemical process, usually driven by photosynthesis, whereby carbon dioxide is converted into organic compounds
* Fixation (alchemy), a process in the alchemical magnum opus
* Fixation (histology) in ...
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Fixed (disambiguation)
Fixed may refer to:
* ''Fixed'' (EP), EP by Nine Inch Nails
* ''Fixed'' (film), an upcoming animated film directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
* Fixed (typeface), a collection of monospace bitmap fonts that is distributed with the X Window System
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Fixer (disambiguation)
Fixer or The Fixer may refer to:
In print
* Fixer (Marvel Comics), two different Marvel Comics characters
* The Fixer, super-hero and protagonist of Frank Miller's ''Holy Terror'' (graphic novel)
* ''The Fixer'' (comics), journalistic comic on ...
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The Fix (disambiguation)
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The Fix Is In (disambiguation)
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