reform
pronunciation
How to pronounce reform in British English:
UK [rɪˈfɔːm]
How to pronounce reform in American English:
US [rɪˈfɔːrm]
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- Noun:
- a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses
- a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices
- self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice
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- Verb:
- make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- produce by cracking
- break up the molecules of
- improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition
- change for the better
Word Origin
- reform (v.)
- c. 1300, "to convert into another and better form," from Old French reformer "rebuild, reconstruct, recreate" (12c.), from Latin reformare "to form again, change, transform, alter," from re- "again" (see re-) + formare "to form" (see form (n.)). Intransitive sense from 1580s. Meaning "to bring (a person) away from an evil course of life" is recorded from early 15c.; of governments, institutions, etc., from early 15c. Related: Reformed; reforming. Reformed churches (1580s) usually are Calvinist as opposed to Lutheran. Reformed Judaism (1843) is a movement initiated in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Reform school is attested from 1859.
- reform (n.)
- "any proceeding which brings back a better order of things," 1660s, from reform (v.) and in some uses from French réforme. As a branch of Judaism from 1843.
Example
- 1. • Stand : coca-cola ceo muhtar kent called for immigration reform
- 2. • Stand : facebook ceo mark zuckerberg took a stand for immigration reform
- 3. How would you reform the gses ?
- 4. The latest subject is education reform .
- 5. Hardly the stuff of religious reconciliation and responsible social reform .