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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#m1)

2) To change your behaviour and become a better person: a reformed thief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#m2)

3) (noun) A change that improves something: school reforms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#m3)

4) (re-form, with hyphen) To form again: the line re-formed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#x1)
- Laws were reformed so children couldn't work in mines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#x2)
- The thief reformed and became honest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#x3)
- Voting reform gave more people a vote. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#x4)
- He is a reformed character now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#x5)
- The class re-formed into a line after break. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/#x6)

### 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).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reform» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reform/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.