reform

Universal Words verb, noun verb 1 [VN] to improve a system, an organization, a law, etc. by making changes to it: proposals to reform the social security system * The law needs to be reformed. * a reforming administration 2 to improve your behaviour; to make sb do this: [VN] She thought she could reform him. * [V] He has promised to reform. reformed adjective: a reformed character / alcoholic * a Reformed Jew (= one who practises a form of Judaism that has changed some aspects of worship in order to adapt to modern society) noun [U,C] change that is made to a social system, an organization, etc. in order to improve or correct it: a government committed to reform * economic / electoral / constitutional reform * the reform of the educational system * reforms in education * far-reaching / major / sweeping reforms