fix up something
fix
noun
us/fɪks/

fixnoun (BAD SITUATION)

[ Cusually sing ]
a situation causing trouble or problems:
He’s in a fix and needs our help.

fixnoun (AMOUNT)

[ C ]slang
an amount of a something that someone needs:
The website supplies me my daily fix of rock and roll facts.

fix | Business English

fix
verb[ T ]
uk /fɪks/us
to repair something or solve a problem:
They have fixed the bugs in the software.
A restaurant would have 48 hours to fix the problem or the place could be shut down.
MEETINGS mainly UK(alsofix up)
to arrange a time and place for an event such as a meeting:
You should fix an appointment with your bank manager.
I fixed up a meeting with this very powerful person at the BBC.
fix a day/time/place (for sth)The court will fix another day for the hearing.
to agree on a price, level, etc. for something and keep it at that price or level:
Customers can fix the amount they pay each month.
fix sth at sthThey fixed the rate of tax at 30%.
ECONOMICS
to agree with other companies that you will all charge the same price for your products and not compete with each other:
Steelmakers deny they fix prices.
fix
noun[ C ]
uk /fɪks/us
a way of solving a problem, especially an easy or quick one:
long-term/short-term fixWe find short-term fixes, not long-term solutions.
a fix for sthMore and more people were using loans as a fix for their financial problems.
There is no quick fix and it will take many months to re-establish profitable sales growth.
IT
a small computer program that can repair a problem with software:
a fix for sthThe software developer says it has developed a fix for the problem.
a situation that has been dishonestly arranged by someone in order to get an advantage for themselves:
When we won the contract, some people thought it was a fix.
ECONOMICS
a price, for example, on gold or silver, that is set according to supply and demand:
The London morning gold fix was $1,154.00 versus the previous afternoon fix of $1,139.50.
 get a fix on sth
to understand what a situation is like:
Market research helps to get a fix on what customers want.

Examples of fix

fix
The height originally planned was reduced by 100 ft and definitely fixed at 160 metres.
In this way the equilibrium can be seen to fix the strategies of the players.
We will then go on to the more involved cases where the 'quick fix' cannot be used; these are not really hard, but simply technical.
The stability result (i) says that the evolution of the capital intensity is uniquely determined by the random fixed point.
The weighted mean difference was k2n99 for both the fixed and random effects models.
In these planar surfaces, the values must be fixed to do not detect any local peak.
If this is fixed then the automaton is a fixed structure deterministic or a fixed structure stochastic automaton.
In our context, their suggestions imply that a likelihood approach with random variety effects reduces bias in the estimation of (fixed) year effects.
These qualities are important but not sufficient: if the dentist were not good at fixing our teeth, we would probably look elsewhere.
Periods of maps on trees with all branching points fixed.
The fluid particles avoid moving near the fixed wall y = 0, so that as they emerge from the origin they are biased towards the vertical.
The turnover rate to new allelic specificities was fixed at 0.1, with the number of different specificities held constant at 20.
In classical political economy, voluntary arrangements to fix prices and restrict competition were part of a citizen's broader right to contract.
They were calculated from girth measurements performed with permanent metal dendrometers fixed on the trunks.
For our emotional response to being hurt to remain with us as hatred, it must be fixed to something more permanent than the single event.
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