cobbled together

Software deployment is often treated as a necessary evil that can be cobbled together before going live.

Another section says apps that look like they were "cobbled together in a few days" could be rejected.

She managed to make her way home only after local farmers cobbled together a bit of money for her bus-fare.

It's possible the ship was a developmental prototype from some showroom floor, cobbled together from several different models.

COBBLED together from carts, old cars and anything else to hand, the improvised vehicles used by Indian farmers are often known as jugaad.

The original deal had been cobbled together in such a hurry that key clauses were mangled.

The government seems to have cobbled together these proposals.

Shareholder rights have been trampled underfoot as bureaucrats and executives have cobbled together politically expedient banking mergers.

the Forgotten Gorilla is a cobbled-together mechanical suit made to fit the tiberium-mutated bodies of the forgotten infantry.

Many systems today are cobbled together with a huge investment in proprietary programming that yields very brittle connections.

Under those circumstances, the mortgage-backed securities cobbled together by investment banks looked like a godsend.

Document-level security in an RDBMS is cobbled together by limiting database access to stored procedures with custom selects and views.

Instead the Tory MEPs now form the core of a cobbled-together new group, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).

they are tiny mean huts cobbled together from sheet metal, elephant dung, car doors, truck canopies, straw and whatever else is at hand.

The price of a cobbled-together rescue is that some day the euro zone will probably have to endure yet another existential crisis.

Silvio Berlusconi's government cobbled together an emergency austerity package for Italy late on Friday to placate the bond markets.

The Senate Finance Committee today approved a health care reform bill cobbled together by Montana Sen. Max Baucus.

In any event, the deal cobbled together in Congress does little to address the federal government's fiscal sustainability.

We cobbled together a proposal to put before the committee.

In a panic, the Bush administration swallowed its laissez-faire pride and cobbled together a hasty $700bn financial rescue plan.

In the computer labs of MIT, an unpretentious engineer cobbled together the first global spreadsheet.

With some prodding from India, 22 parties cobbled together an anti-Maoist coalition, but the constitution-writing process stalled.

The first turbines were cobbled together from components intended for ships.

The bill was cobbled together after a scandal over big government contracts.

Often statistics are cobbled together from leaks.

The sixth sense device was cobbled together from common parts costing just $300.

The student cobbled together an essay in half an hour.

The essay was cobbled together from some old notes.

When Buffett began managing money in 1956 with $100, 000 cobbled together from a handful of investors, he was dubbed an oddball.

It was cobbled together.

I have a feeling this aircraft is a cobbled together "best stealth shaped" non-production aircraft the Chinese can come up with.

The money was cobbled together from various investors, including a Hong Kong company and friends of Mr. Lu's.