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jugaad means creative idea, quick alternate way to solve or fix complex or expensive problem. jugaad is very famous in india and now use by many others countries too. so when joanna turnbull, managing editor, english dictionaries, oxford university press (oup), uk, visited india for the english workshop in pune (india) she made clear that there are many words in english from the indian usage and jugaad is one from that. for example, locally made motor vehicles that are used mostly in small villages as a means of low cost transportation in rural india. jugaad (also sometimes jugard) literally means an improvised arrangement or work-around, which has to be used because of lack of resources. this is a hindi term widely used by people speaking other indian languages, and by people of indian origin around the world. the same term is still used for a type of vehicle, found in rural india, made by carpenters by fitting a diesel engine on a cart. jugaad colloquially means a creative idea, or a