tinkering
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- واژهنامه · French & English to Persian Epistemological Dictionary bricolage|tinker|tinkering sar-e-ham(-bandi) kardan band zadan (barâ ye dorost kardan, bâ ciz i )var raftan + Syndicalists consider man as producer rather than consumer. They are more concerned to procure freedom in work than to increase material well-being. They have revived the quest for liberty, which was growing somewhat dimmed under the regime of Parliamentary Socialism, and they have reminded men that what our modern society needs is not a little tinkering here and there, nor the kind of minor readjustments to which the existing holders of power may readily consent, but a fundamental reconstruction, a sweeping away of all the sources of oppression, a liberation of men's constructive energies, and a wholly new way of conceiving and regulating production and economic relations. (B. RUSSELL, Proposed Roads To Freedom )
- واژهنامه · Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary 1 tin·ker n. Pronunciation: ' tiŋ-kər Function: noun Etymology: Middle English tinkere Date: 14th century 1 a : a usually itinerant mender of household utensils b : an unskillful mender : BUNGLER 2 chiefly Irish : GYPSY 2 tinker n. Function: verb Inflected Form: tin·kered ; tin·ker·ing \-k(ə-)riŋ\ Date: 1592 intransitive verb : to work in the manner of a tinker especially : to repair, adjust, or work with something in an unskilled or experimental manner : FIDDLE transitive verb : to repair, adjust, or experiment with –tin·ker·er \-kər-ər\ noun tinker's damn Variant: also tinker's dam Pronunciation: - ' dam Function: noun Etymology: probably from the tinkers' reputation for blasphemy Date: 1839 : a minimum amount or degree (as of care)