reform
noun
the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc..
antireform
-
a word derived from
reform.
Example Sentences
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Bartlett Naylor, a policy advocate at Public Citizen, a consumer rights group, called the derivatives letter “troubling,” adding that Ms. Waters “needn’t add her voice to the cacophony from antireform Wall Street apologists.”
From New York Times ● May 11, 2013
"We are going to be at parity with the other guys in spending for the week," said one pro-reform organizer, who had been monitoring the antireform ad purchases.
From Time ● Mar. 16, 2010
After talking with Chubais, Yeltsin announced that he was firing Korzhakov, Barsukov and First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, the overseer of the military-industrial complex and reputed godfather of the antireform cabal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Russia made good progress on privatization in 1993 despite active opposition from key cabinet members, hard-line legislators, and antireform regional leaders.
From The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
