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Judge contributes to inadequate rule change (5)

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I believe the answer is:

rejig

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'inadequate rule change' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with ownership as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'judge contributes to' is the wordplay.
'judge' becomes 'J' (abbreviation for judge).
'contributes' indicates putting letters inside.
'to' becomes 'reig' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'j' placed inside 'reig' is 'REJIG'.

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(Other definitions for rejig that I've seen before include "Arrange anew" , "Arrange in new way" , "Re-equip for new kind of work" , "Equip again" , "Rearrange (something)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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