reform

«reform» in Mova's school dictionary: To change and improve a system, law or organisation — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (reform, reforms, reformed, reforming); noun (a reform, reforms)

meaning for a pupil

1) To change and improve a system, law or organisation. tree →

2) To change your behaviour and become a better person: a reformed thief. tree →

3) (noun) A change that improves something: school reforms. tree →

4) (re-form, with hyphen) To form again: the line re-formed. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and citizenship lessons, reforms changed laws about voting and child workers. In stories, a villain reforms. Phrases: reform the law, political reform, a reformed character.

examples

• The government wants to reform the schools. tree →
• Laws were reformed so children couldn't work in mines. tree →
• The thief reformed and became honest. tree →
• Voting reform gave more people a vote. tree →
• He is a reformed character now. tree →
• The class re-formed into a line after break. tree →

note

Regular verb: reformed. Noun for the movement: reformation. Person: reformer. Watch «re-form» (form again) with a hyphen.

In the corpora

• "Entitlement reform" means cutting pensions and welfare (US).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «reform» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.