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
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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