English Online Dictionary. What means amendment? What does amendment mean?
English
Etymology
From French amendement, from Late Latin amendamentum, equivalent to amend + -ment.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /ʌˈmɛnd.mənt/
Noun
amendment (countable and uncountable, plural amendments)
- An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
- Synonyms: improvement, reformation
- In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
- (law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
- (especially US) An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
- That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
Hyponyms
- constitutional amendment
- friendly amendment
- probing amendment
- wrecking amendment
Derived terms
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See also
- engrossed
- engrossed amendment
- repeal
Further reading
- “amendment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amendment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “amendment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
- mandement