reform bill

collocation in English

meaningsofreformandbill

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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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bill
noun
uk
/bɪl/us
/bɪl/
a request for payment of money owed, or the piece of paper on which it ...
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(Definition ofreformandbillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The new pensionreformbillfailed to satisfy the labour leaders, however.
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The pensionreformbill, meanwhile, eliminated many of the pension guarantees that union members (and other formal sector workers) had traditionally enjoyed.
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That particular government fell before theirreformbillwas enacted.
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The budget included repealing the campaign financereformbillpassed a decade earlier.
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He also has been outspoken in opposition of the 2010 health carereformbill, referring to it as socialism.
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The government introduces a six-pointreformbillto be put to a nation-wide referendum vote.
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After the passage of the bankruptcyreformbillof 2005, even private student loans are not discharged during bankruptcy.
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An amendment to a federal civil servicereformbill(1971) enabled fathers to apply for part-time civil service work.
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He also managed to get himself expelled from the legislature ten days before the convention during a debate on an educationreformbill.
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In 1994, parliament passed an electoralreformbillthat introduced the current system of parallel voting in single-member constituencies and proportional voting blocks.
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During this time, he put forward an electoralreformbillwhich provided for women's suffrage, and the abolition of plural voting, however the bill did not succeed.
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The plan was written in secrecy, as the public would never approve of a bankingreformbillwritten by bankers -- much less of a plan for a central bank.
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