reform legislation

collocation in English

meaningsofreformandlegislation

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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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legislation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌledʒ.ɪˈsleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌledʒ.əˈsleɪ.ʃən/
a law or set of laws suggested by a government and made official by ...
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(Definition ofreformandlegislationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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At the same time, thereformlegislationof 1864 was introduced.
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Three articles scrutinise the effects of thisreformlegislationon court decisions regarding freedom and slavery.
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The extent to which farm ownership size increases depends on landreformlegislation.
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This was the case of politicalreformlegislation.
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The army had been significantly reduced in size by the militaryreformlegislationof 1927-8.
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The enactedreformlegislationconformed closely to these ideas.
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Several states have passed tortreformlegislation.
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In the case of insurance discrimination, privacy and insurancereformlegislationcan address the problem (60;61).
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Such a commission is often the arena for the negotiation of reform compromises, and commission proposals usually provide the basic ingredients ofreformlegislation.
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Although their forecasts varied, nearly all believed thatreformlegislationwould be enacted, and many believed such legislation would be comprehensive in scope.
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The evidence allows for conflicting interpretations, but one thing is certain: war and depression are not preconditions for the passage of majorreformlegislation.
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This article seeks to explain the successful passing of thisreformlegislation.
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And despite the possible affinity between the more heavily privatized structure of these nations' systems and market-based reforms, pro-competitivereformlegislationhas faced a rough road.
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In place of the system of patronage appointment, thereformlegislationwas designed to develop a career civil service with a system of promotion on merit.
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That is one of the elements that will be contained in real croftingreformlegislationin the future.
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What progress is being made on leaseholdreformlegislation.
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The whole of our socialreformlegislationis an indirect subsidy to wages.
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However, as in past trade unionreformlegislation, the bad gets through with the good.
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