reform

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Editorial note

The best outcome from Peretz's suffering would be reform and we should work towards that end.

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Quick take

a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of reform gathered in one view.

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"

noun

self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for 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"

noun

self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"

verb

make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; "reform a political system"

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"

verb

produce by cracking; "reform gas"

verb

break up the molecules of; "reform oil"

verb

improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; "reform the health system in this country"

verb

change for the better; "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light"

Example sentences

The best outcome from Peretz's suffering would be reform and we should work towards that end.

My own sense is that this one is going to tip toward Microsoft and that we will get some measure of reform here.

It is always an opportunity, because it reveals fear of reform.

The federal sentencing guidelines were a helpful reform.

" I think it is an interesting read, but less practical for reforming mathematics education than I had hoped.

It makes people who support sentence reform seem dishonest by cherry-picking the edge cases, instead of trying to paint an accurate picture with statistics.

Pretty much everybody else favors reform, including most of the tech industry heavyweights.

My hypothesis is that we need to reform the representation of programs to address this use case: I download the sources for a tool I use, wanting to make a tweak.

Judge Posner is indeed a brilliant and highly-respected jurist and his views on our problematic patent system will undoubtedly resonate and help the cause of reform.

Hence the reason the law should be reformed to attach patentable rights to have a enforceable requirement to actually 'use' the patent - thus destroying the majority of trolls.

Diplomatic cables report how American officials frequently assured skeptical governments that the training was aimed at reform, not promoting revolutions.

What was the value to the RSC of trolling the Content industry for reforms that had no chance of happening, that wouldn't have actually kept people from being bankrupted by lawsuits, that wouldn't make it easier to launch tech companies, and that at the same time manage to almost uniformly enrage rightsholders?Was this memo really "shockingly sensible"?

The Minnesota reform, which was the example for the federal reform, set up guidelines based on a "severity score" of the offense--so that for the first time legislative statutes from many different decades were compared as to the actual social harm resulting from each offense, based on community standards as of the time of the reform--and on a "criminal history score" of the offender, so that prison time was reserved only for the most dangerous repeat offenders.