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[syn: reformatory, reform school, training school]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.]
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of
government.
[1913 Webster]
Civil service reform. See under Civil.
Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in
1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular
representation in Parliament.
Reform school, a school established by a state or city
government, for the confinement, instruction, and
reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of
idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See
Reformation.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
reform school
n 1: correctional institution for the detention and discipline
and training of young or first offenders [syn:
reformatory, reform school, training school]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "reform school":
POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution,
borstal school, bridewell, brig, cell, concentration camp,
condemned cell, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp,
federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse,
house of correction, house of detention, industrial school,
internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup,
maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen,
penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary,
prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reformatory, remand school,
sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth,
training school