Meaning of REFORM
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- [n] a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"
- [n] self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"
- [n] a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; "the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians"
- [v] change for the better; "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light"
- [v] make reforms in by removing abuse and injustices; "reform a political system"
- [v] improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; "reform the health system in this country"
- [v] break up the molecules of ("reform oil")
- [v] produce by cracking; "reform gas"
- [v] bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
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| | See Also: | | alter, ameliorate, amend, better, campaign, cause, change, change integrity, create from raw material, create from raw stuff, crusade, drive, effort, improve, improvement, land reform, meliorate, moralisation, moralise, moralization, moralize, movement, regenerate, self-improvement, self-reformation | |
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\Re*form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. [F. r['e]former, L.
reformare; pref. re- re- + formare to form, from forma form.
See {Form}.]
To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore
to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change
from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a
profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an
age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
--Swift.
Syn: To amend; correct; emend; rectify; mend; repair; better;
improve; restore; reclaim.
\Re*form"\, v. i.
To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own
character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will
seldom reform.
\Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
government.
{Civil service reform}. See under {Civil}.
{Reform acts} (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
representation in Parliament.
{Reform school}, a school established by a state or city
government, for the confinement, instruction, and
reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
{Reformation}.
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