Source — Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, "jugaad" (noun and adjective)

• Title: jugaad noun; jugaad adjective
• Publication: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com
• URL: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/jugaad_1 (noun); https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/jugaad_2 (adjective)
• Accessed: 2026-09-03 — directly read via curl with a browser User-Agent, after a plain WebFetch returned HTTP 403 (this project's standard fallback for this failure mode)
• Type: primary (a general-English learner's dictionary's own entry, directly read, not WebSearch-reported); neutral, lexicographic stance.

Extract

Both entries are labeled (Indian English) and give the identical pronunciation /dʒʊˈɡɑːd/.

Noun (jugaad_1):

1. [uncountable] "the use of skill and imagination to find an easy solution to a problem or to fix or make something using cheap, basic items."
2. [countable] "a vehicle made from different parts of other vehicles and used for carrying people, goods, etc., that is usually open at the front and the back and often not very safe to drive."

Adjective (jugaad_2): "involving the use of skill and imagination to find an easy solution to a problem or to fix or make something using cheap, basic items." Example given: "jugaad innovation."

This is this project's first case of a word carrying three separate, directly-confirmed dictionary senses in one English reference work: an abstract-quality noun sense, a concrete-object (vehicle) noun sense, and an adjective sense — a broader and more integrated English adoption than any prior word on file, none of which have a confirmed adjectival form.

Gaps

• No usage examples/collocations beyond "jugaad innovation" were shown on the free page (a "Word Combinations"/collocations dictionary is upsold, not included).
• No etymology or first-attestation date is given by this dictionary (unlike the OED's reported, unconfirmed 1995 date — sources/oed-jugaad-reported.md).

Used in

• Jugaad