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REFORM MOVEMENT
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I. (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)
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