Tra từ reform - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

re·form [reform reforms reformed reforming] verb, noun BrE [rɪˈfɔːm] NAmE [rɪˈfɔːrm]
verb
1. transitive ~ sth 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. intransitive, transitive to improve your behaviour; to make sb do this
• He has promised to reform.
•~ sb She thought she could reform him.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English (as a verb in the senses ‘restore (peace)’ and ‘bring back to the original condition’): from Old French reformer or Latin reformare, from re- ‘back’ + formare ‘to form, shape’. The noun dates from the mid 17th cent.

Thesaurus:
reform verb T, I
•The president has promised to reform the welfare system.
overhaul • • improve • • fix • • reorganize • • reshape • • revise • • revamp • • make sth over • |especially journalism shake sth up •
reform/overhaul/improve/fix/reorganize/reshape/revise/revamp/shake up a system
reform/overhaul/fix/reorganize/reshape/revamp the economy
reform/overhaul/revise the law

Example Bank:
•The education system must be radically reformed.
•the near impossibility of truly reforming the system
•There are proposals to reform the welfare system.
•a reformed character/alcoholic
Derived Word: ↑reformed

noun uncountable, countable
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, etc. reform
•the reform of the educational system
•reforms in education
•far-reaching/major/sweeping reforms

Word Origin:
Middle English (as a verb in the senses ‘restore (peace)’ and ‘bring back to the original condition’): from Old French reformer or Latin reformare, from re- ‘back’ + formare ‘to form, shape’. The noun dates from the mid 17th cent.

Example Bank:
•Health care reform is long overdue.
•His administration carried out economic reforms.
•His economic reforms failed to improve their lives.
•Publishers continue to push for sweeping reforms.
•The House narrowly passed the education reform bill.
•The Prime Minister promised sweeping reforms of the banking system.
•The conservative coalition could delay further reforms or block them altogether.
•The country desperately needs broad political and constitutional reform.
•The government instituted a tax reform to stimulate demand.
•The practice of global politics requires reform.
•The reforms went through in spite of opposition from teachers.
•There remains reluctance to undertake the structural reforms advocated by Mr Smith.
•They have issued a statement advocating reform of the legal system.
•They wanted a weak president and a strong one-chamber parliament able to push through radical reforms.
•They wanted to push through radical reforms.
•Top on his list was immigration reform.
•We are committed to supporting democracy and reform in the region.
•advocates of health-care reform
•efforts to accelerate the structural reform of the economy
•much-needed reforms
•our debate on intelligence reform
•reforms in housing and education
•tax reforms aimed at encouraging land development
•the battle for corporate reform
•economic/electoral/constitutional reform
•far-reaching/major/sweeping reforms