Usually means: Change to improve an institution.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word reform:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reform, reform: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reform: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reform: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reform, reform: Wordnik
  7. reform: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Reform, reform: Wiktionary
  9. reform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reform: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reform: Dictionary.com
  12. reform (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. reform: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Reform (Anglican), Reform (Religion), Reform (disambiguation), Reform (music), Reform (religion), Reform (think tank), Reform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Reform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. reform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. reform: Rhymezone
  18. reform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. reform: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. reform: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. reform: Free Dictionary
  22. reform: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. reform: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. reform: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. reform: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reform: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. reform: Political
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. REFORM: Acronym Finder
  4. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reform: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See reformability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it
verb:  (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better.
verb:  (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
noun:  a political movement/party
adjective:  Of Reform Judaism, its tenets, or its adherents.

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