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Philip is in office and see a bulletin board with "football fixtures".
fixture ['fýkstʃə]
noun
1 an object firmly fixed in place, esp. a household appliance
2 a person or thing regarded as fixed in a particular place or position
3 (Property law) an article attached to land and regarded as part of it
4 a device to secure a workpiece in a machine tool
5 (Chiefly Brit)a a sports match or social occasion
b the date of such an event
6 (rare)
the act of fixing
[ETYMOLOGY: 17th Century: from Late Latin fixura a fastening (with -t- by analogy with mixture)]
'fixtureless adjective
Apparently def.#5 fits
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