About The Word Amendment
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Amendment
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What's The Definition Of Amendment?
[n] the act of amending
[n] a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.) Synonyms | Synonyms for Amendment: Related Terms | Find terms related to Amendment: addendum | addition | advance | advancement | alteration | amelioration | ascent | attachment | bettering | betterment | bill | boost | calendar | change | change of allegiance | change of heart | change of mind | clause | companion bills amendment | correction | dragnet clause | editing | emendation | enacting clause | enhancement | enrichment | escalator clause | eugenics | euthenics | furtherance | Great Leap Forward | headway | hold-up bill | improvement | joker | lift | melioration | mend | mending | motion | new birth | omnibus bill | paragraph | pickup | preferment | privileged question | progress | progression | promotion | proviso | question | rebirth | recension | reclamation | recovery | recrudescence | rectification | redaction | redemption | reform | reformation | regeneration | renascence | renewal | repair | rescript | rescription | restoration | revampment | revisal | revise | revised edition | revision | revival | rewrite | rewriting | rider | rise | saving clause | upbeat | uplift | upping | upswing | uptrend | upward mobility See Also | correction | Eighteenth Amendment | Fifth Amendment | First Amendment | Fourteenth Amendment | rectification | statement | Twentieth Amendment Amendment In Webster's Dictionary \A*mend"ment\, n. [F. amendement, LL. amendamentum.]
1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a
fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
2. In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be
made in a bill or motion by adding, changing,
substituting, or omitting.
3. (Law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
Syn: Improvement; reformation; emendation.
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