A person who makes changes to something in order to improve it.
a skilled reformer of government spending
a radical social reformer
Example sentencesExamples
- Roosevelt was more of a conservative reformer than most businessmen understood.
- Progressive reformers focused public attention in particular on low-income children.
- The only provision made by Calvinist reformers for music in worship was simple metrical psalm settings.
- He's a radical hippie reformer bent on changing things, is what he is.
- He grabs the listener by the lapels like a social reformer shouting "can't you see what's happening?"
- The common thread is that all three are pro-western, liberal economic reformers.
- Many of the political reformers with whom the artist felt instinctive sympathy supported the French.
- He is a white reformer who fights for rights of blacks.
- Under Deng Xiaoping, the reformers slowly regained control of the country.
- The Queen's mingling of the old and new religions (the 'Elizabethan Settlement') perturbed reformers and conservatives alike.