Definition of "rigged" []

• Pre-arranged and fixed so that the winner is decided before the competition (adjective)
• Having the rigging up (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of rig. (verb)

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• "Pro-Ch á vez lawmakers now dominate the vast majority of seats in Congress, a result of the opposition's refusal to take part in what they called rigged elections in 2005."
• "Colorado Senator Michael Bennet was caught by a C-SPAN microphone on Tuesday lamenting what he referred to as a rigged lame duck Senate process."
• "When the Iranian opposition took to the streets in protest of their candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi's loss, in what they called rigged elections, they were young people -- students, for the most part -- and women."