reformative
改革性,改革性的,改革的,改革派
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Definitions
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- : the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- : an instance of this.
- : the amendment of conduct, belief, etc.
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- : to change to a better state, form, etc.; improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, etc.
- : to cause to abandon wrong or evil ways of life or conduct.
- : to put an end to.
- : Chemistry. to subject to the process of reforming, as in refining petroleum.
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- : to abandon evil conduct or error: The drunkard promised to reform.
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- : of, relating to, or characteristic of Reform Jews or Reform Judaism: a Reform rabbi.
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Examples
Noto said he and his SoFi colleagues “are huge supporters of student loan reform,” despite the fact that the company refinances loans, because “it’s better for the country.”
These reforms should translate into fewer gerrymandered seats overall — by either party.
Those barriers, he said, include criminal justice and immigration reform.
These drawbacks leave room for future reforms even if Complete Communities passes.
Another area where lawmakers have a hard time getting things over the finish line is police reform.
The idealism of the eighteenth century was not reformative and humanistic, but revolutionary and humanitarian.
The moral hump is tolerated, even patronised in reformative institutions, but the physical hump, never!
One draws humour, one irony, one a tendency to exaggerate, another deeply to be serious and reformative.
Louisiana, therefore, has an elaborate excise, guiltless of any suggestion of reformative objects.
Suffering which is of an entirely penal nature, has very little deterrent value and absolutely no reformative value whatever.