Definition of Antireform

1. Adjective. (politics) Opposing reform ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antireform

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antireform

antirealist
antirealistic
antirealists
antireality
antirebel
antirecession
antirecoil
antirecycling
antired
antiredeposition
antireferendum
antireflection
antireflection coating
antireflective
antireflux
antireform (current term)
antireformism
antireformist
antireformists
antiregular
antiregulation
antiregulatory
antirejection
antirelaxation
antireligion
antireligious
antireligiousness
antirenter
antirenters
antirepressive

Literary usage of Antireform

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A National Budget System by Brookings Institution, Institute for Government Research (1919)
"... and economy in administration, and the so-called reformers would every now and then elect a mayor, and then the antireform people would elect a mayor. ..."

2. The Relations of the United States and Spain, Diplomacy by French Ensor Chadwick (1909)
"Notwithstanding a change in the electoral law in the interest of the party of antireform while the election was pending, the whole representation sent from ..."

3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1832)
"... for scarcely one, who opposed ministers on the policy of their proposition, had been induced - to stand on the principle of antireform. ..."

4. Intervention Or Neglect: The United States and Central America Beyond the 1980s by Linda Robinson (1991)
"ARENA was founded as an antireform party in 1981 with the backing of wealthy Salvadorans angry over the expropriation of their land. ..."

5. U.S. Economic Policy Toward Africa by Jeffrey Ira Herbst (1992)
"... does not indicate that a government is irrevocably committed to a reform program that promotes exports. antireform ..."

6. The American Quarterly Register by American Education Society (1833)
"Some of the antireform members v ably absent. On motion of the Lord Chancellor, the House adjourned to th January. 17. A new city, buried under the lava, ..."

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