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Fixing may refer to:

  • The present tense of the verb "to fix", an action meaning maintenance, repair, and operations
  • "Fixing", craving an addictive drug, hence "getting your fix" (from the 1960s)
  • Match fixing, 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"
  • Price fixing, an agreement between business competitors to sell the same product or service at the same price

Science and medicine

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