amendment

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amendment

Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AMENDMENT Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mend-#AMENDMENT

From French Category:English terms derived from French#AMENDMENT amendement, from Late Latin Category:English terms derived from Late Latin#AMENDMENT amendamentum, equivalent to amend +‎ -mentCategory:English terms suffixed with -ment#AMENDMENT.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈmɛndmənt/Category:English 3-syllable words#AMENDMENT Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AMENDMENT
(US, UK) IPA^(key): /ʌˈmɛnd.mənt/Category:English 3-syllable words#AMENDMENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AMENDMENT
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#AMENDMENT

Noun

amendment (countable and uncountable, plural amendments)Category:English lemmas#AMENDMENT Category:English nouns#AMENDMENT Category:English uncountable nouns#AMENDMENT Category:English countable nouns#AMENDMENT Category:English countable nouns#AMENDMENT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#AMENDMENT Category:Pages with entries#AMENDMENT Category:Pages with 1 entry#AMENDMENT

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
Synonyms: improvement, reformation
In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
- 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian‎:
  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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#AMENDMENT
- 2024 March 12, ETSC, ETSC‎:
  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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#AMENDMENT
(law Category:en:Law#AMENDMENT) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
(especially US Category:American English#AMENDMENT) An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.Category:English terms with usage examples#AMENDMENT

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.Category:English terms with usage examples#AMENDMENT
That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
a soil amendmentCategory:English terms with collocations#AMENDMENT

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mend- (0 c, 10 e)

Translations

correction or addition to a law — see also emendation

Category:Entries with translation boxes#AMENDMENT

Arabic: تَعْدِيل m (taʕdīl)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#AMENDMENT
Belarusian: папра́ўка f (papráwka)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#AMENDMENT
Bulgarian: коре́кция (bg) f (korékcija)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#AMENDMENT
Catalan: esmena (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#AMENDMENT
Chinese:
Mandarin: 改正 (zh) (gǎizhèng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#AMENDMENT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#AMENDMENT
Cornish: amendyans mCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#AMENDMENT
Czech: dodatek mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#AMENDMENT
Danish: lovændring cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#AMENDMENT
Esperanto: amendo (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#AMENDMENT
Finnish: lakimuutos (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#AMENDMENT, lainmuutos (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#AMENDMENT
French: amendement (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#AMENDMENT, avenant (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#AMENDMENT
Galician: emenda fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#AMENDMENT
Georgian: ამენდმენტი (amendmenṭi)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#AMENDMENT
German: Änderung (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT, Gesetzesänderung fCategory:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT, Novelle (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT
Greek: τροπολογία (el) f (tropología)Category:Terms with Greek translations#AMENDMENT
Hawaiian: pākuʻi hoʻololiCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#AMENDMENT
Hindi: संशोधन (hi) m (sañśodhan)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#AMENDMENT
Hungarian: törvénymódosítás (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#AMENDMENT, jogszabály-módosításCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#AMENDMENT, módosítás (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#AMENDMENT, módosító (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#AMENDMENT
Ido: emendo (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#AMENDMENT
Italian: emendamento (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#AMENDMENT
Japanese: 改正 (ja) (かいせい, kaisei)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#AMENDMENT
Korean: 개정(改正) (ko) (gaejeong)Category:Terms with Korean translations#AMENDMENT
Macedonian: амандман m (amandman)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#AMENDMENT
Māori: menemanaCategory:Terms with Māori translations#AMENDMENT
Pohnpeian: kamwomwadahn wekideklaCategory:Terms with Pohnpeian translations#AMENDMENT
Polish: poprawka (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#AMENDMENT, nowelizacja (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#AMENDMENT, nowela (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#AMENDMENT
Portuguese: emenda (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#AMENDMENT
Romanian: amendament (ro) nCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#AMENDMENT, modificare de lege fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#AMENDMENT
Russian: попра́вка (ru) f (poprávka)Category:Terms with Russian translations#AMENDMENT, измене́ние (ru) n (izmenénije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#AMENDMENT
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ама̀ндма̄н mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#AMENDMENT

Latin: amàndmān (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#AMENDMENT
Spanish: enmienda (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#AMENDMENT, enmendadura fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#AMENDMENT, enmendamiento (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#AMENDMENT (dated), emienda fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#AMENDMENT (dated)
Tagalog: susogCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#AMENDMENT
Thai: การแปรญัตติ (kāan-prɛ̄ɛ-yát-tì)Category:Terms with Thai translations#AMENDMENT
Turkish: tebdil (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#AMENDMENT
Ukrainian: попра́вка f (poprávka)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#AMENDMENT
Vietnamese: sửa đổi (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#AMENDMENT
Welsh: gwelliant (cy) mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#AMENDMENT

that which is added

Category:Entries with translation boxes#AMENDMENT

Bulgarian: попра́вка (bg) f (poprávka)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#AMENDMENT
Catalan: esmena (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#AMENDMENT
Cornish: amendyans mCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#AMENDMENT
Danish: tilføjelse cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#AMENDMENT, ændring (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#AMENDMENT
Finnish: lisäys (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#AMENDMENT
German: Abänderung (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT, Nachbesserung fCategory:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT, Verbesserung (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT, Ergänzung (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT
Hungarian: kiegészítés (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#AMENDMENT
Italian: aggiunta (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#AMENDMENT
Māori: menemanaCategory:Terms with Māori translations#AMENDMENT
Polish: dodatek (pl) nCategory:Terms with Polish translations#AMENDMENT
Portuguese: emenda (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#AMENDMENT
Russian: доба́вка (ru) f (dobávka)Category:Terms with Russian translations#AMENDMENT, приса́дка (ru) f (prisádka)Category:Terms with Russian translations#AMENDMENT
Spanish: enmienda (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#AMENDMENT, emienda fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#AMENDMENT (dated)
Swahili: rekebishoCategory:Terms with Swahili translations#AMENDMENT, badiliko (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#AMENDMENT
Swedish: tillägg (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#AMENDMENT
Turkish: düzeltme (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#AMENDMENT, ıslah (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#AMENDMENT

addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution

Category:Entries with translation boxes#AMENDMENT

Chinese:
Mandarin: 修正案 (zh) (xiūzhèng'àn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#AMENDMENT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#AMENDMENT
Cornish: amendyans mCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#AMENDMENT
Esperanto: amendo (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#AMENDMENT
Finnish: lisäys (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#AMENDMENT
Galician: emenda fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#AMENDMENT
German: Zusatzartikel (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT, Verfassungsänderung (de)Category:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT, Verfassungsergänzung fCategory:Terms with German translations#AMENDMENT
Greek: αναθεώρηση (el) f (anatheórisi)Category:Terms with Greek translations#AMENDMENT
Hindi: संशोधन (hi) m (sañśodhan)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#AMENDMENT
Hungarian: alkotmánykiegészítésCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#AMENDMENT, alkotmánymódosítás (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#AMENDMENT
Japanese: 修正案 (しゅうせいあん, shūseian)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#AMENDMENT
Korean: 수정안(修正案) (ko) (sujeong'an)Category:Terms with Korean translations#AMENDMENT
Māori: menemanaCategory:Terms with Māori translations#AMENDMENT
Portuguese: emenda (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#AMENDMENT
Ukrainian: попра́вка f (poprávka)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#AMENDMENT
Vietnamese: tu chính ánCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#AMENDMENT (修正案Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#AMENDMENT)

See also

Further reading

“amendment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amendment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
“amendment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

mandement

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