'Reform acts' definitions:

Definition of 'Reform acts'

From: GCIDE
  • Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.] Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. [1913 Webster]
  • Civil service reform. See under Civil.
  • Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
  • 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament.
  • Reform school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See Reformation. [1913 Webster]