Reform Bill

American  

noun

English History.

1. any of the bills passed by Parliament (1832, 1867, 1884) providing for an increase in the number of voters in elections for the House of Commons, especially the bill of 1832 by which many rotten boroughs were disfranchised.

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Reform Bill British  

noun

1. history any of several bills or acts extending the franchise or redistributing parliamentary seats, esp the acts of 1832 and 1867

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Example Sentences

The draft Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill will now be scrutinised by MPs on the Housing Committee before making its way through Parliament, with the cap potentially coming into force in late 2028.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

The sale comes as the Scottish Parliament is to debate the Land Reform Bill, which would regulate how large land estates in Scotland are sold.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025

Outlining a specific timetable for leasehold reform for the first time, Mr Pennycook said elements of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, passed by the Conservative government earlier this year, would be implemented.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024

A victims bill authorising payments to those affected by the infected blood scandal should pass on Friday, as should the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.

From BBC • May 23, 2024

And we must not forget that the years covered by young Tennyson’s residence at Cambridge were precisely the period of the keenest intellectual stir and the stormiest political warfare that preceded the great Reform Bill.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various