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Another word for amendment

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Noun

  1. The act of making better or the condition of being made better

    See also:

    better

  2. The act or process of revising

    See also:

    change

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Another word for amendment

Noun

  1. The act of amending

    See also:

    revision

    improvement

  2. A proposal to amend

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Sentence Examples

  • Under this provision an amendment cannot be adopted until nearly four years after it is first proposed.

  • A constitutional amendment of 1900 dispensed with the session of the legislature at Newport.

  • The legislature meets biennially in odd-numbered years, the session being limited to ninety days by a constitutional amendment of 1888.

  • The government were defeated on an amendment in committee, and thereupon resigned.

  • A constitutional amendment of 1888 extended to them the right of suffrage in state and national elections, and an amendment of 1909 partially remedied the evils in the system of apportionment.

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