Usually means: Institution for reforming young offenders.
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  1. reformatory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reformatory: Merriam-Webster
  3. reformatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reformatory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reformatory: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reformatory: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reformatory, reformatory: Wordnik
  8. reformatory: Wiktionary
  9. reformatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reformatory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reformatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reformatory: Dictionary.com
  13. Reformatory (film), Reformatory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Reformatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. reformatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. reformatory: Rhymezone
  17. Reformatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. reformatory: FreeDictionary.org
  19. reformatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. reformatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. reformatory: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. reformatory: Legal dictionary

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  1. reformatory: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or conducive to reform; reformative.
▸ noun:  A prison, especially one for juveniles; a reform school.

Similar:
reformative, helpful, reform school, training school, reformational, correctional, reparative, rectificational, corrective, restitutive, more...

Opposite:
penitentiary, prison, jail

Types:
prison, jail, penitentiary, lockup, more...

Phrases:
reformatory school, Ohio State Reformatory, Ohio Reformatory for Women, Lorton Reformatory, reformatory for young offenders, more...

Adjectives:
juvenile, first, new, federal, penal, charitable, industrial, female, more, inebriate, public

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Similar:
reformative, helpful, reform school, training school, reformational, correctional, reparative, rectificational, corrective, restitutive, more...

Opposite:
penitentiary, prison, jail

Types:
prison, jail, penitentiary, lockup, more...

Phrases:
reformatory school, Ohio State Reformatory, Ohio Reformatory for Women, Lorton Reformatory, reformatory for young offenders, more...

Adjectives:
juvenile, first, new, federal, penal, charitable, industrial, female, more, inebriate, public

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     dark green,     navy blue,     black, more...



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