0 present participle of tinker --
1 to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it: --
There must be no tinkering, but a reduction next year of expenditure to the tune of at least £500 million.
For this reason, it would be wrong for us to do any tinkering.
It is quite evident that the tinkering which is going to be done to-day is going to continue.
A choice between tinkering at the edges or taking forceful measures.
Even when a regulation fails to protect its protected classes, it may not warrant redesign, at least not before exhausting all possibilities of incremental reform and modest tinkering.
In turn, this case study shows that the political tinkering behind fiscal decentralisation policies can be grasped more precisely when we examine the distribution of seemingly small-scale grants.
Drury demonstrates that humans are inexorably in thrall to global change, for all our uncomprehending tinkering.
The answer is negotiable; but must be stated and addressed if tinkering is to amount to science.
