fixed
/fɪkst/ adjective B2- Attached; affixed.
- Unable to move; unmovable.
- Unable to change or vary. · fixed assets· I work fixed hours for a fixed salary.
- Unlikely to change; stable.
- Chemically stable.
- Supplied with what one needs. · She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.· How are you fixed for money?
- Recorded on a permanent medium.
- Rigged; fraudulently prearranged. · The mob made a lot of money from fixed horse races.· The U.S. often relied on fixed elections to keep anti-communist dictatorships in power.
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And although the entertainment was fixed for twelve o’clock, an hour previous to that time the balcony was filled with impatient and expectant guests, consisting of the favored part of the crew of the Pharaon, and other personal friends of the bridegroom, the whole of whom had arrayed themselves in their choicest costumes, in order to do greater honor to the occasion.
As it progressed Anne became more and more abstracted, eating mechanically, with her big eyes fixed unswervingly and unseeingly on the sky outside the window.
One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well.
“Oh, if he knows the contents of this!” murmured he, “and that Noirtier is the father of Villefort, I am lost!” And he fixed his eyes upon Edmond as if he would have penetrated his thoughts.
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