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reform English

Meaning reform meaning

What does reform mean?
Definitions in simple English

reform Verb

— If you reform something, you improve it by removing or correcting faults, problems, etc.

reform

— noun a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts — noun a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians — verb make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices reform a political system — verb improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition reform the health system in this country — verb break up the molecules of reform oil — verb produce by cracking reform gas — verb (= see the light) change for the better The lazy student promised to reform the habitual cheater finally saw the light — verb 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 — noun self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform

Synonyms reform synonyms

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reform English » English

improve correct amend reformation correction change improvement amendment rectify renovation transformation renewal regenerate reclaim revision reshape renew innovation straighten out repair reorganize renovate modify fix enhance conversion alter uplift upgrade see the light revolution revise reshuffle repent remodeling remake refine redress re-educate perfect modernize cure crack convert amelioration ameliorate vamp upheaval turn over a new life turn over a new leaf

Topics reform topics

What do people use reform to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior

Change behavior
Social behavior Behavior

Good, moral
Social behavior Conflict

War
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Repent
Physical actions

Arrange
Physical actions Arrange

Organize
States Quality Good

Improve
Grammar General words Do

Change something

Conjugation reform conjugation

How do you conjugate reform?

reform · verb

Examples reform examples

How do I use reform in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The politician pushed for reform by denouncing the corruption of the government officials.
More than ever, a reform of the health care system is needed.
The raising of children is something that concerns the entire community. There will be an education reform.
The new law was a major reform.
The protesters demanded government reform.
Tom decided to stop drinking and reform his behavior.
The state is going to reform its drug policies.
I am in favor of a German orthographic reform.
The 1960s were years of protest and reform.
The reform on health can't wait anymore.
They debated land reform but never carried it out.
The most significant achievement of the Hungarian Enlightenment was the language reform.
The German energy reform is unaffordable.
These boys ought to be sent to a reform school.
Land reform caused a great change in the lives of the people.
Does prison reform criminals?
To be spared from all those horrors, only one remedy is available: language reform.
I'm sure Tom will reform.
Don't try to reform everyone you meet.
I am against political reform.
The new healthcare reform is nothing but a band-aid solution.
The Democratic Party needs major reform.

Movie subtitles

Her place is in. - A reform school!
He was just a kid who made a mistake and got sent to reform school.
You know, Rocky this is no penny-ante reform wave this priest is starting.
Now, when it's a question of your reform, late again by about five minutes.
Some kind of reform school?
Defeat that set back for 20 years the cause of reform in the U. S forever canceled political chances for Charles Foster Kane.
I've set back the sacred cause of reform, is that it?
The trouble with people who reform is they want to rain on everybody else's parade.
Reform her? - I hate her!
And you dare try to reform her in here, you've come to oppose me in my own house!
If he's caught here he'll be sent to reform school.
When did you reform?
Wrong to think that you could ever reform or to believe that friendship and loyalty could replace your desire for conquest.
O, reform it altogether.
The Sandbar, a cable's length from the wharf, has vanished now - wiped out by commerce and reform.
I am not trying to reform anybody right now.
I beat up a kid for doing that, his mother sent me to reform school.
I'm not running a reform school.
Gosh, if we was in a reform school, it ain't mush for Christmas.
They're gonna be closed up tight. Those kids sent to reform school.
Do you want to be reform mayor?
What do you mean, reform mayor?
I said, do you want to be reform mayor, the mayor of this city?
Well, what do you got to do with the Reform Party?
I am the Reform Party. What do you think?
Oh, she'll probably go to reform school.
In fact, if you'll reform, I'll willingly consider marrying you.
You know, I ain't seen my mother in ten years, not since the day I come out of reform school.
He sent me to reform school once.
I bet a dollar he's sent to reform school.
Yeah, they sent me to reform school for just swiping a bunch of bananas.
Hey, T.B., do they give mickeys in reform school, like these, I mean?
Yeah, never mind. You learn a barrel of good things in reform school.
Hey, Tommy, when you go to reform school.
Your being sorry won't help. Will it help to send him to reform school?
The man that was killed today came from this street and from that reform school.
Look, there's a guy at reform school named Smokey. Liked to have a smoke. They call him Smokey.

News and current affairs

That is a real enough danger to which policymakers must give serious thought as they reform the CAP on the basis of the following five pillars.
Military reform has been reversed.
Constitutions can, and should, accommodate reform when necessary.
This shift in Turkey's strategic role may also be reflected in a new domestic balance between the military and the forces pushing for reform.
Growing awareness of the failure of current policies is causing social discontent, civil disorder, and political instability, with the recently concluded Italian elections and the growing popular resistance to Greek reform efforts serving as a bellwether.
It also requires a substantial reform of the monetary union's system of economic governance, aimed at restoring financial stability and lowering borrowing costs, together with a boost in external demand in order to compensate for the effects of austerity.
Second, global financial reform must proceed at a faster pace.
Such reform is essential if the international financial system is to mediate the sizeable resource transfers that will underpin the required changes in the structure of global demand.
Has the EU's behavior been consistent in supporting political reform in Turkey?
Therefore, the recent lack of progress in Turkey's reform process can to a large extent be explained by the EU's behavior.
Such regulatory reform is now under consideration by the European Commission, and French support is imperative if the EU is to announce this month the necessary legislative moves to promote transparency.
Closing Chernobyl may be the most dramatic, but it is only a single episode in our reform efforts.
But it is easier because once those constraints are appropriately targeted, relatively simple policy changes can yield enormous economic payoffs and start a virtuous cycle of growth and institutional reform.
A few months later, he supported a group of young officers who called for army reform and the ouster of General Militaru, the then Defense Minister and a suspected KGB agent.
Tax reform, however, can provide spur retraining and maintain incentives to work, even while fixing gaping fiscal holes.
Continuing disputes in Congress about the precise details of reform could, therefore, have an economic cost if a perception that the system will not be overhauled gains ground.
As Burma's authorities test reform, these gifts, together with her negotiating skills and, most of all, her vast moral authority, will be tested as never before.
On both occasions, however, the regime's hardliners gained the upper hand, crushing prospects for reform.
No one should rush to judgment yet, but Thein Sein's decisions, at least so far, are beginning to resemble those of South Africa's de Klerk when he initiated his country's reform process.
Profound reform of the welfare state and building a modern tax administration system requires time.
In order to gain the breathing space necessary for the reform process to be effective, the Greek government could just announce a simple rescheduling: the due date of all existing public debt is extended by five years at an unchanged interest rate.
After pro-reform forces secured victory in last year's presidential elections, all of the branches of government began cooperating to entrench democracy and the market economy in Ukraine.
This may lead to suppression of pressure from below for economic reform and opening.
This leads me to my second reform priority: a systemic separation of state power and capital.

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