Synonym: change, convert, improve, revise. Similar words: care for, refer, refuge, refugee, reference, preference, reflection, form. Meaning: [rɪ'fɔrm /-'fɔːm] n. 1. a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses 2. a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices 3. self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice. v. 1. make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices 2. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one 3. produce by cracking 4. break up the molecules of 5. improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition 6. change for the better.
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211, She dismisses the reform process as an exercise in collective navel gazing.
212, He was soon disillusioned by the government's timidity on social reform.
213, The reform has reduced us to servants of the State.
214, The reform will make it more difficult for MPs to block legislation.
215, They have issued a statement advocating reform of the legal system.
216, The election victory gave the party a clear mandate to continue its programme of reform.
217, There is widespread agreement on the need for prison reform.
218, The government is encouraging all parties to play a constructive role in the reform process.
219, We must do more to smooth the country's path to democratic reform.
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220, They fought the election on a platform of economic reform.
221, She is one of the strongest opponents of tax reform.
222, The group has centred its attention on the need for reform.
223, Seeing the tide was now running in his direction, he renewed his campaign for reform.
224, The Conservative government will not slacken the pace of radical reform.
225, There now exists a broad political consensus in favour of economic reform.
226, The population as a whole is/are in favour of the reform.
227, The government has backed off from a fundamental reform of the system.
228, However we adopt healthcare reform, it isn't going to save major amounts of money.
229, The reform has hardly made a scratch upon the cuticle of affairs.
230, He argues that the Congress and President Clinton trampled the constitutional rights of legal immigrants in the new welfare reform law.
231, The talks have bogged down over the issue of military reform.
232, She was one of the leading spirits of the reform movement.
233, Economic reform is needed.
234, The president will now press ahead with his plans for reform.
235, The government set out on a programme of economic reform.
236, An avowed traditionalist, he is against reform of any kind.
237, His critics say his fumbling of the issue of reform has eroded his authority.
238, The report is concerned, inter alia, with the reform of the tax system.
239, The party hopes to win the argument about how to reform the health system.
240, Hargreaves is the MP who got into trouble with his party's chief whip for opposing the tax reform.
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