amendment

English

Etymology

From French amendement, from Late Latin amendamentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmend.mənt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ʌˈmɛnd.mənt/

Noun

amendment (countable and uncountable, plural amendments)

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

   Synonyms: improvement, reformation

2. 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^[1]:

     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.

3. (law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
4. (especially US) An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.

   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.

   a soil amendment

Hyponyms

• constitutional amendment
• friendly amendment
• probing amendment
• wrecking amendment

Derived terms

• reasoned amendment

 

Related terms

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

Translations

correction or addition to a law

• Arabic: تَعْدِيل‎ m (taʕdīl)
• Belarusian: папра́ўка f (papráŭka)
• Bulgarian: коре́кция (bg) f (korékcija)
• Catalan: esmena (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修正案 (zh) (xiūzhèng'àn), 改正 (zh) (gǎizhèng)

• Cornish: amendyans m
• Czech: dodatek m
• Danish: lovændring c
• Esperanto: amendo (eo)
• Finnish: lakimuutos (fi), lainmuutos (fi)
• French: amendement (fr) m, avenant (fr) m
• Galician: emenda f
• Georgian: ამენდმენტი (amendmenṭi)
• German: Änderung (de) f, Gesetzesänderung f, Novelle (de) f
• Greek: τροπολογία (el) f (tropología)
• Hungarian: törvénymódosítás (hu), jogszabály-módosítás, módosítás (hu), módosító (hu)
• Ido: emendo (io)
• Italian: emendamento (it) m
• Japanese: 修正案 (しゅうせいあん, shūseian), 改正 (ja) (かいせい, kaisei)
• Korean: 개정(改正) (ko) (gaejeong)
• Macedonian: амандман m (amandman)
• Maori: menemana
• Polish: poprawka (pl) f, nowelizacja (pl) f, nowela (pl) f
• Portuguese: emenda (pt) f
• Romanian: amendament (ro) n, modificare de lege f
• Russian: попра́вка (ru) f (poprávka), измене́ние (ru) n (izmenénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ама̀ндма̄н m

  Roman: amàndmān (sh) m

• Spanish: enmienda (es) f
• Tagalog: susog
• Turkish: tebdil (tr)
• Ukrainian: попра́вка f (poprávka)
• Vietnamese: tu chính án

that which is added

• Bulgarian: попра́вка (bg) f (poprávka)
• Catalan: esmena (ca)
• Cornish: amendyans m
• Danish: tilføjelse c, ændring (da) c
• Finnish: lisäys (fi)
• German: Abänderung (de) f, Nachbesserung f, Verbesserung (de) f, Ergänzung (de) f
• Hungarian: kiegészítés (hu)
• Italian: aggiunta (it) f
• Maori: menemana
• Polish: dodatek (pl) n
• Portuguese: emenda (pt) f
• Russian: доба́вка (ru) f (dobávka), приса́дка (ru) f (prisádka)
• Spanish: enmienda (es) f
• Swahili: rekebisho, badiliko (sw)
• Swedish: tillägg (sv)
• Turkish: düzeltme (tr), ıslah (tr)

addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution

• Cornish: amendyans m
• Esperanto: amendo (eo)
• Finnish: lisäys (fi)
• Galician: emenda f
• German: Zusatzartikel (de) m, Verfassungsänderung (de), Verfassungsergänzung f
• Greek: αναθεώρηση (el) f (anatheórisi)
• Hungarian: alkotmánykiegészítés, alkotmánymódosítás (hu)
• Maori: menemana
• Portuguese: emenda (pt) f
• Ukrainian: попра́вка f (poprávka)

See also

• engrossed
• engrossed amendment
• repeal

Further reading

• “amendment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “amendment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “amendment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• mandement