reform
US: /ɹəˈfɔɹm/, /ɹɪˈfɔɹm/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
reform /reform/- danh từ
- sự cải cách, sự cải lương, sự cải thiện, sự cải tạo, sự cải tổ
- land reform: cải cách ruộng đất
- sự sửa đổi
- constitutional reform: sự sửa đổi hiến pháp
- sự cải cách, sự cải lương, sự cải thiện, sự cải tạo, sự cải tổ
- ngoại động từ
- cải cách, cải lương, cải thiện, cải tạo, cải tổ
- sửa đổi
- to reform a constitution: sửa đổi một hiến pháp
- triệt bỏ (tệ nạn...); chữa (thói xấu)
- nội động từ
- sửa đổi, sửa mình
Advanced English dictionary
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
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 improve, better, ameliorate, meliorate, emend, rectify, correct, mend, repair, fix, remedy, redo, revise, revolutionize, rehabilitate, remodel, refashion, renovate, reorganize, rebuild, recover:
The first thing to be done was to reform the political system.
2 mend one's ways, turn over a new leaf, Colloq go straight:
After three convictions in as many years, there seemed little chance that he would reform.
n.
3 improvement, betterment, amelioration, melioration, emendation, rectification, correction, rehabilitation, change, modification, perestroika, reorganization, renovation, recovery:
Many believe that prison reform would reduce crime by second offenders. The many reforms introduced by the president were condemned by hard-line party members.
Collocation
ADJ.
drastic, fundamental, great, important, major, radical, significant, substantial | comprehensive, far-reaching, sweeping, wholesale, wide-ranging | minor | piecemeal | new | further | immediate | rapid | much needed, necessary, overdue
Health care reform is long overdue.
| effective | practical | moral, political, social | democratic, liberal | domestic, institutional, internal | procedural, structural | administrative, governmental | constitutional, electoral, judicial, law, legal, legislative | penal, prison | curriculum, educational | welfare | budgetary, economic, financial, monetary, tax | agrarian, agricultural, environmental, land
QUANT.
package
VERB + REFORM
adopt, bring about, introduce, put in place | push through
They wanted a weak president and a strong one-chamber parliament able to push through radical reforms.
| carry out/through, implement, put into practice, undertake | accelerate
efforts to accelerate the structural reform of the economy
| delay | block
The conservative coalition could delay further reforms or block them altogether.
| accept, welcome | advocate, call for, press for, propose
They have issued a statement advocating reform of the legal system.
| demand | back, encourage, support
We are committed to supporting democracy and reform in the region.
| require
The practice of global politics requires reform.
| plan | discuss
REFORM + VERB
go through
The reforms went through in spite of opposition from teachers.
| aim at sth
tax reforms aimed at encouraging land development
REFORM + NOUN
process | movement | initiative, measure, package, programme | act, bill | policy
PREP.
~ in
reforms in housing and education
PHRASES
the need for reform, the pace of reform, a programme of reform, a timetable for reform
ADV.
drastically, fundamentally, radically
The health service must be radically reformed.
VERB + REFORM
attempt to, seek to, try to
PHRASES
attempts/efforts/proposals to reform sth, a need to reform sth
Concise dictionary
reforms|reformed|reformingrɪ'fɔrm /-'fɔːmnoun
+a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses
+a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices
+self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice
verb
+make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
+bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
+produce by cracking
+break up the molecules of
+improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition
+change for the better
