英语词汇“reform act”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

reform act n. now chiefly historical an act framed to amend a system of parliamentary representation, esp. (usually with capital initial) any of those introduced in Britain during the 19th and early 20th centuries, which reformed the franchise and greatly increased the size of the electorate.

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1832 Times 27 Feb. 2/3 The district of Tower Hamlets alone contained..a population greater than any one of 30 of the English counties,..several of which, under the reform act, will elect between 10 and 18 representatives.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 309/2 By the English Reform Act of 1867..twenty-six seats were taken from boroughs.

1918 Times 23 Aug. 8/4 Above all, in 1900 there was no khaki vote. That is the great dividing line which the Reform Act has drawn between 1900 and 1918.

1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. i. 22 Two more Reform Acts further increased the electorate (although about two million men and all women were still denied the vote).

单词	reform act
释义	> as lemmas reform act reform act n. now chiefly historical an act framed to amend a system of parliamentary representation, esp. (usually with capital initial) any of those introduced in Britain during the 19th and early 20th centuries, which reformed the franchise and greatly increased the size of the electorate. ΚΠ 1832 Times 27 Feb. 2/3 The district of Tower Hamlets alone contained..a population greater than any one of 30 of the English counties,..several of which, under the reform act, will elect between 10 and 18 representatives. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 309/2 By the English Reform Act of 1867..twenty-six seats were taken from boroughs. 1918 Times 23 Aug. 8/4 Above all, in 1900 there was no khaki vote. That is the great dividing line which the Reform Act has drawn between 1900 and 1918. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. i. 22 Two more Reform Acts further increased the electorate (although about two million men and all women were still denied the vote). extracted from reformn.²adj. < as lemmas
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