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Noun: juggling  jú-gu-ling
  1. Throwing and catching several objects simultaneously
    "The street performer's juggling act amazed the crowd";
    - juggle
     
  2. The act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression
    "The accountant's juggling of the numbers hid the company's true financial state";
    - juggle
Verb: juggle  jú-gul
  1. Throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously
    "The entertainer juggled five balls at once"
     
  2. Deal with simultaneously
    "She had to juggle her job and her children"
     
  3. Hold with difficulty and balance insecurely
    "the player juggled the ball"
     
  4. Manipulate by or as if by moving around components
    "juggle an account so as to hide a deficit"
     
  5. Influence by slyness
    "He juggled the facts to mislead the jury";
    - beguile, hoodwink

Derived forms: jugglings

Type of: balance, care, cheat, chisel [informal], cook [informal], deal, fake, falsify, fudge, handle, manage, manipulate, misrepresent, performance, poise, rearrangement, rip off [informal], spoof [informal], throw, wangle [informal], wing

Encyclopedia: Juggling

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