amendment — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Sinônimos

   improvementreformation

2. In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   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.

   Almost half of MEPs wanted to remove the new provisions to expand the use of megatrucks but an amendment to do that failed to pass by just six votes.

3. Correction of an error in a writ or process.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

4. An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.

   Uso

   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • contável
   • especially
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

   The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.

5. That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   a soil amendment

Substantivo

1. the act of amending or correcting

   Termos mais gerais

   correctionrectification

2. a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)

   Termos mais gerais

   statement