TINKER


Meaning of TINKER in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

If you ~ with something, you make some small changes to it, in an attempt to improve it or repair it.

Instead of the Government admitting its error, it just ~ed with the problem...

It is not enough to ~ at the edges; our objective must be to reconstruct the entire system.

VERB: V with n, V

~ing

No amount of ~ing is going to improve matters.

N-UNCOUNT

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