limited reform
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflimitedandreform
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limited
adjective
uk/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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reform
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈfɔːm/us/rɪˈfɔːrm/
an improvement, especially in a person's behaviour or in the structure ...
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(Definition oflimitedandreformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is hard to see how any suchlimitedreformcould have generated serious losers.
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This is alimitedreform.
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Alimitedreformhas been made of the franchise.
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Under these circumstances the political goal of those who imagined and invoked the middle class was to enactlimitedreformin the least destabilizing manner possible.
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We were really trying to effect alimitedreformin a rather difficult field.
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Limitedreformof land tenure is warranted, but wholesale abolition of the existing system is not.
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The only disappointing aspect of the summit was thelimitedreformof the common agricultural policy.
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It was therefore a somewhatlimitedreform, but very much a step in the right direction.
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The danger oflimitedreformis that insufficient account will be taken of the protection of investors.
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In 1968 there were attempts, by night and by day, to bring about alimitedreformof the other place.
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That is why the implementation of our proposals for a selective andlimitedreformof industrial relations is one of our first priorities.
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First, let us decide whether we are aiming at a directly elected chamber in the foreseeable future, or are thinking purely in terms oflimitedreform.
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From the 1930s to the 1970s, authoritarian governments employed political repression andlimitedreformto maintain power, despite the trappings of democracy.
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