amendment
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
amendment
- An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
- In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis ↗", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis ↗", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- (legal) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
- An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
- The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
- The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.
- That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
- a soil amendment
- French: amendement, avenant
- German: Änderung, Gesetzesänderung, Novelle
- Italian: emendamento
- Portuguese: emenda
- Russian: попра́вка
- Spanish: enmienda
- German: Abänderung, Nachbesserung, Verbesserung, Ergänzung
- Italian: aggiunta
- Portuguese: emenda
- Russian: приса́дка
- Spanish: enmienda
- German: Zusatzartikel, Verfassungsänderung, Verfassungsergänzung
- Portuguese: emenda
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