rough-and-ready method

  • 1rough-and-ready — adjective 1. ) simple and prepared quickly, but effective: a rough and ready method/technique/approach 2. ) not polite or well educated …

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  • 2rough-and-ready — UK / US adjective 1) simple and prepared quickly, but effective a rough and ready method/technique/approach 2) not polite or well educated …

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  • 3rough and ready — also rough and ready 1) ADJ GRADED A rough and ready solution or method is one that is rather simple and not very exact because it has been thought of or done in a hurry. Here is a rough and ready measurement. 2) ADJ GRADED A rough and ready… …

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  • 4rough-and-ready — adjective Date: 1810 crude in nature, method, or manner but effective in action or use < a rough and ready solution > …

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  • 5rough and ready — ▶ adjective BASIC, simple, crude, unrefined, unsophisticated; makeshift, provisional, stopgap, improvised, extemporary, ad hoc; hurried, sketchy. * * * crude but effective …

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  • 6Rough for Radio II — is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in French in 1961 as Pochade radiophonique and published in Minuit 16, November 1975. Beckett translated the work into English shortly before its broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 13th April 1976.&#8230; …

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  • 7WEIGHTS AND MEASURES — From the earliest period of their history the Jews were alive to the necessity of an accurate system of weights and measures, and an honest handling of them. The first legislation in the interest of economic righteousness in general is found in&#8230; …

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  • 8Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview        Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual&#8230; …

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  • 9tunnels and underground excavations — ▪ engineering Introduction        Great tunnels of the world Great tunnels of the worldhorizontal underground passageway produced by excavation or occasionally by nature s action in dissolving a soluble rock, such as limestone. A vertical opening …

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  • 10Health and Disease — ▪ 2009 Introduction Food and Drug Safety.       In 2008 the contamination of infant formula and related dairy products with melamine in China led to widespread health problems in children, including urinary problems and possible renal tube&#8230; …

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