REFORM MOVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reform movement mean? 

• REFORM MOVEMENT (noun)
  The noun REFORM MOVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms

  Familiarity information: REFORM MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFORM MOVEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("reform movement" is a kind of...):

front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reform movement"):

Age of Reason; Enlightenment (a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine)

labor; labor movement; trade union movement (an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement)