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The act of altering something secretly or improperly
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tampering
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Wikipedia
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Tampering can refer to many forms of sabotage but the term is often used to mean intentional modification of products in a way that would make them harmful to the consumer. This threat has prompted manufacturers to make products that are either difficult ...
WordNet
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n. the act of altering something secretly or improperly [syn: meddling ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tamper \Tam"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tampered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tampering .] [A corruption of temper.] To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. 'T is dangerous tampering with a muse. --Roscommon. To meddle so ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of one who tampers. vb. (present participle of tamper English)
Usage examples of tampering.
Product tampering is a possibility, but at this point we have no idea when Ms.
Because if there has been tampering, Sophie, that's just what whoever did it wants.
Even tie her to the product tampering, to big-shot Cutter's little accident in Venice.
This person was at minimum aware of the tampering and the embezzlement, and very likely was more involved.
It's going to be a rough road tying him to corporate espionage, embezzlement, product tampering, much less murder.
He's involved in the product tampering, in the embezzlement, in every problem my family's had this year.
If he hadn't called the shots in that whole product tampering business, she'd start wearing off-the-rack suits.
The Vlagh has been tampering with the natural order of things here lately, though.
Just the fact that there were servants of the Vlagh tampering with the Reindeer Tribes is a fairly strong indication that the Vlagh will come north before long.
The tampering up in that part of Dahlaine’s Domain called Tonthakan, however, had evidently been the work of their enemies, and it had obviously been designed to stir up conflict between the various tribes, and thereby to reduce the size of the force that would be needed to hold back the invasion of the creatures of the Wasteland.
Check your equipment Todd almost suggested that Linc check for tampering but that would be premature.
The rest she spent doing what she could to make tampering with the evidence as hard as possible.
Two of them would have involved a single component failure very early in the voyage - highly unlikely to be tampering, in Hollister's opinion.
Polyon's meddling with the ship's security system had extended to some very sophisticated tampering in the Net itself.
No, and Amalda gave her head a little regretful shake, that would be tampering and that's not ethical.