Reform

Definitions: Reform

Reform

Noun

1. A change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts".

2. A campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; "the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians".

3. Self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform".

Verb

1. Make reforms in; change for the better; "reform a political system".

2. Subject to spiritual regeneration.

3. Produce by cracking; "reform gas".

4. Break up the molecules of ("reform oil").

5. Change for the better; "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light".

Date "reform" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
19th Century Satire	In general, a periodic epidemic, starting with marked heat, followed by a high fever, and accompanied by a flow of ink in the newspapers, a discharge of words from the face and a rush of blood to the polls, leaving the victim a chronic invalid until the n. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Reform can refer to:

Reform Judaism
Reform Party in the United States.
Reform Party of Canada

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
REFORM	English	Resource Failure and Restoration Management in ATM-based IBCN	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Reform

Synonyms: regenerate (v), see the light (v), straighten out (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Continuance in action	Convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form; remodel, new model, refound, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.
Improvement	Reform, remodel, reorganize; new model.
	Reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration; purification; oxidation; repair; (restoration); recovery.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I think that the right woman could reform you. (Victor/Victoria; writing credit: Blake Edwards; Hans Hoemburg) And he's only the key witness in the biggest public health reform issue, maybe the biggest, most-expensive corporate-malfeasance case in U.S. history. (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth) Ah, there it is. I knew it. Sent to reform school at age 16 for almost killing a man. A few months ago got in trouble again. (American Ninja; writing credit: Gideon Amir; Paul De Mielche) Hey, let's go join the Reform party! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Oh, I must say, I don't think you can reform those types. (Tales from the Hood; writing credit: Rusty Cundieff; Darin Scott)
Clever	Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. (references; author: Mark Twain)
Movie/TV Titles	Die Reform (1974) Reform School Girl (1957) The Reform Gambler Kid Canfield (1922) Hell-Roarin' Reform (1919) The Reform Candidate (1915)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Study of Present-Law Taxpayer Confidentiality and Disclosure Provisions as Required by Section 3802 of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, (reference) Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development That Matters (School Reform, 31) (reference) Anglic, an international language, with a survey of English spelling reform (reference) Augmenting Democracy: Political Movements and Constitutional Reform During the Rise of Labour 1900-1924 (reference) Rendezvous With Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform. Rev and Abr. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Ed (With a New Preface) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Australian Law Reform Commission Publications (reference) Business Reform (reference) Economic Reform (reference) International Journal Of Educational Reform (reference) Journal Of Pesticide Reform (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Reform School Girls (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	How to Reform Mankind (reference) Trad of Jewish Reform Congregation: Berlin (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Progress of reform!!! No. 1.Credit: Library of Congress.		Our country's hope. Harrison & reform 4th May 1840.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Woodrow Wilson just finished painting "currency reform" and "patriotism" on the trunk of sleeping G.O.P. elephant while beside him sits a "partisanship" knife.Credit: Library of Congress.		Civilization builders. I am the spirit of reform -- but I'm not such a bad guy ...Credit: Library of Congress.
	This is the "pull" that civil service reform has with this administration / Dalrymple.Credit: Library of Congress.		High school and Second Reform Church, Tarrytown, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dutch Reform Church, Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress.		Gov. Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States - Cleveland and reform.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Penalty for possession of marijuana (first offense) / National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.Credit: Library of Congress.		An open letter to the President of the United States : most Americans are for postal reform, but not at this price.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Anne Morrow Lindbergh	Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Sophie Swetchine	We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Edmund Burke	To innovate is not to reform.
	A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
Edward Bulwer-lytton	A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Hosea Ballou	True repentance always involves reform.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude.
Richard Carlile	Pamphlet-vendors are the most important springs in the machinery of reform.
Voltaire	Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	In the French revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	We must reform and transform.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Address, within health care reform, the need for financial coverage of calcium supplements for those who cannot reach optimal calcium intake through foods alone and financial support for screening of target populations to identify individuals who are at high risk of fracture and who would be likely to benefit from increased calcium intake. (references)
Business		Furthermore, it indicates that reform is far from inevitable. (references)
		Employer organizations abandoned efforts to push for labor law reform. (references)
		As pressure for reform increased, the government has responded gradually. (references)
Children	Ethiopia	Nevertheless there is a clear need for reform of the juvenile justice system. (references)
	Russia	Many NGO's, including Human Rights Watch and Mental Disability Rights International, have called for reform to the child protection system. (references)
	Russia	Several approaches have been proposed to reform the orphanage system and have been implemented by regional governments with the help of international donors. (references)
Civil Liberties	Israel and the occupied territories	The North American Reform Movement has rejected such an alternative. (references)
	Iran	Over the course of a few days, the 14 most prominent reform newspapers were ordered closed, without hearings. (references)
	Bhutan	These parties, which seek the repatriation of refugees and democratic reform, do not conduct activities inside the country. (references)
Economic History	Indonesia	Banking sector reform has stalled. (references)
	Iran	The core of this program was land reform. (references)
	Russia	Russia is in the midst of major tax reform. (references)
Human Rights	Morocco	ONPM also supports penal reform efforts. (references)
	Tajikistan	Juveniles are held in separate juvenile reform facilities. (references)
	Georgia	Other results of the judicial reform effort were inconclusive. (references)
Indigenous People	Bolivia	The Agrarian Reform Law provides for indigenous communities to have legal title to their communal lands and for individual farmers to have title to the land they work. (references)
	Bolivia	Although the Agrarian Reform Law extended the protection of the national labor law to all paid agricultural workers, including indigenous workers, the problem persists due to lack of effective enforcement. (references)
	Colombia	The U'wa broke off talks with the Government in September 2000, in response to a ruling by the Government's agrarian reform agency authorizing the state oil company to purchase lands to create a buffer zone around the drilling area, and talks remained suspended during the year. (references)
Minorities	Israel and the occupied territories	Unlike in previous years, there were no reports that evangelical Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Reform and Conservative Jews complained of incidents of harassment, threats, and vandalism directed against their building, and other facilities, many of which were committed by two ultraorthodox groups, Yad L'Achim and Lev L'Achim. (references)
Political Economy	Brazil	In 1996, it passed patent reform legislation. (references)
	Uzbekistan	Parliament passed several laws on judicial reform. (references)
Political Rights	Zimbabwe	On March 31, the NCA sponsored a conference to revive the constitutional reform process. (references)
	Guyana	The CARICOM-brokered agreement also called for constitutional reform of the electoral process. (references)
	Tonga	All nine current representatives of the general population advocate various degrees of democratic reform. (references)
Trade	Nicaragua	These tariffs had been lowered under a 1997 tax reform law. (references)
	Eritrea	Eritrea is planning to implement a comprehensive tax and customs reform. (references)
	Yemen	If a current reform effort is successful, these taxes will be replaced with a General Sales Tax. (references)
Travel	Ireland	An American citizen entering Ireland for permanent residence must register with the Aliens Office of the Department of Justice, Equality, and Law Reform as soon as possible after entering the country. (references)
Women	China	Women have borne the brunt of the economic reform of state-owned enterprises. (references)
	India	In February 2000, CEDAW noted that "steps have not been taken to reform the personal laws of different religious and ethnic groups, in consultation with them, so as to conform with the Convention. (references)
Worker Rights	Pakistan	Labor leaders continued to criticize the reform package as too limited in scope. (references)
	Panama	A 1995 labor code reform package significantly increased workers' ability to establish unions. (references)
	Argentina	Given the lack of full implementation and the severe economic recession, it is difficult to judge the impact of the labor reform law. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Al Hunt	Mr. Chairman, we're going to have to take a break now, but we will be back in just a minute to talk to Bill Thomas about Social Security and unemployment compensation, and possible tax reform.
Fred Thompson	I don't know, Bob, but I'll tell you this. I am very concerned about our intelligence community. Our counterintelligence capabilities, our counterterrorism capabilities are not what they should be. There needs to be major reform in the CIA and the FBI.
Ross Perot	Well, again, we do need campaign reform. It's very difficult to get, if this does occur, it's an incremental first step. That's better than nothing. But it's a long way from where the whole process needs to go.
Rush Limbaugh	The argument that money corrupts just by being there is the same argument the campaign finance reform clowns make.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	With a view to a general reform in the system, I recommend the subject to the attention of Congress.
Grover Cleveland	1885-1889; 1893-1897	As a means to this end, civil-service reform should be in good faith enforced.
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	Reform, reorganization and strengthening of our whole judicial and enforcement system, both in civil and criminal sides, have been advocated for years by statesmen, judges, and bar associations.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Cuban social and economic reform should be encouraged.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	I am also submitting proposals for selective reform of State utility commission regulations.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	During the past four years we have made tremendous progress in regulatory reform.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	One thing that tax reform will not be is a tax increase in disguise.
George Bush	1989-1993	Often, state reform requires waiving certain federal regulations.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Previous government reform reports gathered dust.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Good jobs must be the aim of welfare reform.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Reform" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.87% of the time. "Reform" is used about 5,414 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.87%	4,920	1,992
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	8.01%	434	13,249
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.55%	30	63,341
Noun (proper)	0.44%	24	71,196
Noun (common)	0.13%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	5,414	N/A

1. Reform, AL (city, FIPS 64104)
Location: 33.37956 N, 88.01670 W
Population (1990): 2105 (878 housing units)
Area: 20.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 35481
Country: USA

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Expressions: Reform

Expressions using "reform": agrarian reform ♦ banking reform ♦ budget reform ♦ Civil Service Reform ♦ currency reform ♦ economic reform ♦ educational reform ♦ Electoral Reform International Services ♦ Health Care Reform ♦ juvenile reform school ♦ land reform ♦ monetary reform ♦ political reform ♦ reform acts ♦ Reform Jew ♦ Reform Judaism ♦ reform measures ♦ reform movement ♦ reform process ♦ reform school ♦ tax reform. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "reform": reform-and-investment, reform-championing, reform-minded, reform-orientated, reform-oriented, reform-proof, reform-through-labour.
	Ending with "reform": anti-reform, post-reform, pre-reform, pro-reform.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reform

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
welfare reform	165
school reform	124
tax reform	120
reform	116
tort reform	114
education reform	81
health care reform	77
reform party	65
campaign finance reform	61
reform judaism	51
prison reform	49
medicare reform	46
reform texas tort	43
immigration reform	34
reform umno	30
bankruptcy reform	29
american tax reform	29
protestant reform	28
educational reform	27
reform school girl	26
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reform

Language		Translations for "reform"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		reformoj, reformë, përmirësoj (ameliorate, amend, better, cultivate, elevate, enrich, grade, improve, meliorate, mend, polish, reclaim, refine, strengthen, upgrade), përmirësim (amelioration, amendment, betterment, development, elevation, enhancement, improvement, melioration, pickup, progress, rally, reclamation, refinement, reformation, rise, upswing, upturn), ndreqje (adjustment, amendment, correction, disposition, dressing, mending, rectification, refit, refitment, repair, restoration, settlement), ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, correct, dispose, dress, fix up, make amends, mend, piece, rectify, redress, refit, reinstate, remake, remedy, repair, revise, spruce up, Square, straighten, tidy up, touch up, tune up), korrigjoj (blue pencil, correct, emend, make amends, re establish, readjust, rearrange, reclaim, rectify, red pencil, repair, retouch, retrieve, straighten, vet), korrigjim (amelioration, amendment, correction, emendation, equalization, readjustment, reclaim, reclamation, rectification, redress, reformation, repair, retrieval, vetting). (various references)

Arabic		‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏قوم (adjust, appraise, assess, calibrate, correct, esteem, estimate, evaluate, folk, guess, horde, measure, nation, people, prize, rate, reckon, rectify, straighten, value), ‏غير من إخلاقه, ‏حسن (advantage, alter, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, extend, fine, handsome, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reclaim, season, upgrade, well), ‏تهذب, ‏تحسن (advance, ameliorate, amelioration, become soundly established, betterment, change for the better, get better, get well, improve, improvement, mend, pick me up, progress, rally, recover, refinement, speed up, take a turn for the better), ‏إصلاح (betterment, correction, mediation, mend, pacification, pacifying, reclamation, reconcile, reconditioning, recovery, redress, reformation, rehabilitation, remedy, renovation, repair, reparation), ‏أصلح (amend, fix, mend, overhaul, pacify, piece, reclaim, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, refit, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, retrieve, rig, right, see, set right). (various references)

Bulgarian		реформа, реформирам, преобразявам (metamorphose, transfigure, transform), преобразование (reformation), поправям се (amend, straighten). (various references)

Chinese		�"�革 (Re-form, Reformation, Re-formation, reformed, re-formed, Re-forming). (various references)

Czech		reformovat (reclaim), reforma (reformation), zlepšit (ameliorate, better, brighten up, enhance, jazz, rectify, uplift), polepšit se (better, change for the better), napravit (correct, make good, manipulate, put right, reclaim, redress, remedy, repair, set, undo). (various references)

Danish		Verdenskonference om landbrugsreformen og udviklingen af landdistrikter (World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development), Vejledende programmer om finansielle og tekniske ledsageforanstaltninger i forbindelse med reformen af de økonomiske og sociale strukturer inden for rammerne af Euro-Middelhavs-partnerskabet (Indicative programmes concerning financial and technical measures to accompany the reform of economic and social structures in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, MEDA), valgreform (electoral reform), udsætterko (culled cow, reform cow), straffelovsreform (reform of the penal system), landbrugsreform (agrarian reform, land reform), forkaemper for jordreformer (advocate of land reform). (various references)

Dutch		reformeren, hervormen. (various references)

Esperanto		reformo, reformi. (various references)

Farsi		تجدیدسازمان , ترمیم کردن (Amend, Rehabilitate), اصلاحات (Reformation), بهسازی کردن , بهسازی (Improvement, Sanitation), بازساخت . (various references)

Finnish		uudistus (innovation, renewal, revision), edistys (progress). (various references)

French		réformer (release, repair). (various references)

German		Reform (reformation). (various references)

Greek		μεταρρύθμιση (reformation), μεταρρυθμίζω (modify), αναμορφώνω (reclaio). (various references)

Hebrew		לשפר (ameliorate, better, improve, mend), תקון (amendment, correction, emendation, improvement, modification, reformation, regulation, repair), תק� �" (improvement, measure, ordinance, regulation, remedy, rule), רפורמ�". (various references)

Hungarian		reform (reformation, reformatory). (various references)

Indonesian		perbaikan (betterment, emendation, improvement, repair, restoration, revision, upgrading), pembaruan (modernisation, renewal, renovation), membarui (modernise, refurbish, regenerate, renew). (various references)

Italian		riformare (re-form), riforma (correction, culling, reformation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		革新 (innovation), 匡正 (correction, training), 更�"� (renewal, renovation), 更始 (renewal), 感化 (correction, influence, inspiration), �"�良 (improvement), �"�革 (innovation, reformation), �"�定 , �"�心 (conversion), 変革 (change, Reformation, revolution, upheaval), 一新 (complete change, remodeling, renewal, restoration), 刪修 (revision), 刷新 (renovation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょうせい (blackmail, coercion, compulsion, correction, enforcement, extortion, great, lovely voice, low singing voice, magnificent, obligation, paragenesis, persistent demand, remedy, splendid, student teacher, symbiosis, training), さっし�" (renovation), さ�"しゅう (assembling, revision, three autumn months, three years), かくし�" (confidence, conviction, core, innovation, kernel), かいし�" (bringing up to date, care, caution, congeniality, conversion, depth of the sea, discretion, doctor's hospital rounds, Neptune, Poseidon, precaution, progress, reformation, satisfaction, sea god, seaquake, transgression), かいかく (innovation, reformation, sea shell), かいりょう (improvement), かいてい (bottom of the ocean, court session, guide, ladder, revision, step, stepping-stone, trial), か�"か (connivance, correction, crucible, cyclization, dried fruit, fighting, influence, inspiration, leisure, lonely people, pot, separation from the world, shield and halberd, shutting one's eyes to, under the jurisdiction of, war, widow and widower), いっし�" (complete change, first instance, first trial, one mind, one's own interests, oneself, remodeling, renewal, restoration, the whole heart, throughout the body, wholeheartedness), �"うかい (high seas, international waters, presenting to the public, public meeting, Red Sea, regret, renewal, renovation, repentance, sail, voyage, Yellow Sea), �"うし (calf, company, Confucius, Crown Prince, edict, exercise, filial child, firm, government and people, heir, hind leg, Imperial Heir, kind intention, kind thought, lattice, lecturer, man of noble character, minister, national examinations, official and personal, pearly white teeth, photon, public and private, public announcement, renewal, slag, successor, use, young nobleman), へ�"かく (change, irregular conjugation, irregularity, Reformation, revolution, upheaval). (various references)

Korean		개혁 (Re-forming). (various references)

Manx		aachummey (deform, deformation, hash up, reconstitute, reconstitution, reformation, remodel, renew, renovate), aachroo (recreate, restoration, retrace). (various references)

Papiamen		reformá. (various references)

Pig Latin		eformray

Portuguese		reformar (amend, intension, pension plans, recast, reclaim, recondition, renovate, reorganize, superannuate), reforma (amendment, converting, pension, recast, reconstruction, redress, refit, refitment, reformation, regeneration, remaking, renovation, reorganization, retirement). (various references)

Romanian		reforma (improve, invalid, renew), îndrepta (aim, align, amend, bend, better, cast, chasten, correct, direct, drive, guide, head for, improve, lead, mend, point at, reclaim, recover, redeem, redress, reduce, remedy, right, send, set, shape, steer, straighten, tend, train, unbend). (various references)

Russian		реформа. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		reforma, ponovo postrojiti, ponovo formirati. (various references)

Spanish		reformar (alter, clean up, reclaim, refashion, turn round, upgrade), reforma (alteration, improvement, reformation, upgrade). (various references)

Swedish		reformera (reclaim), reform. (various references)

Turkish		reform yapmak, reform (reformative, reformatory), yenilik (change, departure, improvement, innovation, neology, newness, novelty, recency), yeniden kurma (reconstruction, reinstatement), yeniden düzenlemek (readjust, recompose, reconstitute, reconvert, redeploy, redraw, reorganize), yeniden düzenleme (reconversion, redeployment, reformation, re-formation), yeniden biçimlendirmek (recast, re-form), tekrar sıraya koymak (re-form), devrim yapmak (revolutionize), devrim (reformation, revolution, upheaval), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), düzelmek (ameliorate, amend, come along, do better, get better, improve, look up, meliorate, mend, recover, refine, smooth down, straighten), adam olmak (grow into a man), ıslah etmek (bowdlerize, chasten, grade up, improve, reclaim), ıslah (correctional, improvement, melioration, reclamation). (various references)

Turkmen		reforma (r). (various references)

Ukranian		реформувати, реформа, виправлятися, виправляти (amend, beet, better, castigate, chasten, correct, emend, oversee, re establish, reclaim, rectify, redress, remedy, retrieve, touch up), виправлення (amendment, betterment, castigation, correction, emendation, reclaim, reclamation, rectification, redress, reformation, reparation, retrieval). (various references)

Vietnamese		trại cải tạo (bridewell, penitentiary, reform school, reformatory). (various references)

Welsh		diwygio (ameliorate, amend, revise), diwygiad (reformation, revival). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reform

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reform": reformabilities, reformability, reformable, reformat, reformate, reformates, reformation, reformational, reformations, reformative, reformatories, reformatory, reformats, reformatted, reformatting, reformed, reformer, reformers, reforming, reformism, reformisms, reformist, reformists, reforms, reformulate, reformulated, reformulates, reformulating, reformulation, reformulations. (additional references)
	Words ending with "reform": antireform, counterreform, preform. (additional references)
	Words containing "reform": counterreformation, counterreformations, counterreformer, counterreformers, counterreforms, irreformabilities, irreformability, irreformable, preformat, preformation, preformationist, preformationists, preformations, preformats, preformatted, preformatting, preformed, preforming, preforms, preformulate, preformulated, preformulates, preformulating, unreformed. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reform" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Breffort, peform, preform, Redfarn, refem, refirm, Reford, Reforma, reforme, Reformi, reformr, refort, refprm, refrom, Refurb, Rfrom, riform, Ryford, triform. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reform"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reform" (pronounced rufô"rm)
4	-f ô" r m	conform, deform, form, inform, misinform, perform, transform.
3	-ô" r m	dorm, lukewarm, norm, storm, swarm, warm.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reform

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: former.
	Words within the letters "e-f-m-o-r-r"
	-1 letter: forme, frore, ormer.
	-2 letters: fore, form, froe, from, more, omer.
	-3 letters: emf, err, fem, fer, foe, for, fro, mor, ore, ref, rem, roe, rom.
	-4 letters: ef, em, er, me, mo, oe, of, om, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-m-o-r-r"
	+1 letter: forearm, formers, perform, preform, reforms.
	+2 letters: aeriform, deformer, fireroom, fireworm, forearms, formerly, freeform, informer, performs, preforms, reformat, reformed, reformer, reinform, reniform, retiform.
	+3 letters: comforter, conformer, deformers, fermentor, firerooms, firestorm, fireworms, forearmed, formatter, framework, germproof, informers, nonfarmer, performed, performer, preformat, preformed, reconfirm, reformate, reformats, reformers, reforming, reformism, reformist, reinforms, terraform, therefrom, uniformer, vermiform, wherefrom.
	+4 letters: antireform, choreiform, comforters, conformers, coryneform, dendriform, farmworker, fermentors, firestorms, forearming, foremother, formalizer, formalwear, formatters, frameworks, letterform, nonfarmers, outperform, overinform, performers, performing, permafrost, preformats, preforming, reconfirms, reformable, reformates, reformisms, reformists, reinformed, remorseful, salverform, terraforms, thermoform, unreformed.
	+5 letters: electroform, farmworkers, farthermost, ferromagnet, fluorimeter, fluorimetry, fluorometer, fluorometry, foraminifer, foremothers, forevermore, formalizers, formicaries, formularies, formularize, freemasonry, furthermore, furthermost, imperforate, letterforms, microfilmer, microflorae, mothproofer, mournfuller, outperforms, overinforms, performable, performance, permafrosts, reconfirmed, reformation, reformative, reformatory, reformatted, reformulate, reinforming, retransform, tamperproof, terraformed, thermoforms, transformed, transformer, unperformed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.