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A word used in Israel to mean "an unofficial creative solution" to a problem.
The leg of my chair cracked off, so I made a combina by attaching a piece of PVC pipe in its place with duct tape.
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From: combine in english.
A typical way in Israel to get things or jobs. By deal or connections.
Also possible to conjugate (Cimbanti, Cimbanta, Cimbannu...)
1. Mr. Cohen works here thanks to a combina his brother, Uzi Cohen, has made.
2. (as gerund:) Dude, it's your lucky day. I managed to LeCamben for us tickets for the show for free.
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The typical way in Israel to get things or jobs. By a deal or connections.
1. Mr. Cohen works here thanks to a combina his brother, Uzi Cohen, has made.
2. Damn Ezra! I am a victim to his combina, that's why i'm doing these kitchen jobs.
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A Hebrew, and often Shebrew (but works equally well in other languages) set of creative, original, situation-specific-work-arounds,
legal and/or otherwise, to facilitate all the proponents' outcomes, usually in reicence to an unfailrly applied vague law of sorts.
This can manifest itself in as simple a situation as fixing a broken chair,
all the way to the more complex legal wangling meanderings, such as fixing a lower poll tax bill, or getting out of a mountain of parking ticket payments, well before the system spanks all your assets.
..Both require wolf-like guile, but on different levels of execution.
The parking attendant jammed my wagon on a vaguely zoned parking area-the red lines had faded, and appeared blue, so i thought it was ok to park here, so I used a combina with my aunt in the municipality to get off paying the fine.