/ ˈfɪkstʃə(r); NAmE / noun
1.
( BrE ) a sports event that has been arranged to take place on a particular date and at a particular place :
an annual fixture
Saturday's fixture against Liverpool
the season's fixture list
2.
( especially BrE ) a thing such as a bath/ bathtub or a toilet that is fixed in a house and that you do not take with you when you move house :
The price of the house includes fixtures and fittings .
( figurative )
He has stayed with us so long he seems to have become a permanent fixture .
—compare fitting
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WORD ORIGIN
late 16th cent. (in the sense fixing, becoming fixed ): alteration (first found in Shakespeare) of obsolete fixure (from late Latin fixura , from Latin figere to fix), with t inserted on the pattern of mixture .