reformist

reformer | American Dictionary

reformer
noun[ C ]
us/rɪˈfɔr·mər/
social studies
a person who works for political, social, or religious change

reformer | Business English

reformer
noun[ C ]
uk /rɪˈfɔːmər/us
someone who plans or supports changes to a system, law, organization, etc. in order to make it more modern or effective:
political/economic reformerHe is known worldwide as an economic reformer who forged a landmark free-trade agreement with the United States.
The new governor had a reputation as a reformer who pledged to stamp out corruption.

Examples of reformer

reformer
First, reformers should avoid facile assumptions about what the public wants and will accept.
In both instances it was the humanists and orthographers who played the critical roles in debates that were to have major consequences for the reformers.
To start with, the attacks coincided with growing doubts by the reformers regarding their own methods.
The myriad chemical publications of these cameralist reformers exist today as the artifacts of an extinct profession.
Such comment would have been unthinkable before 1784, and the journal evidently had the protection of the liberal reformers in government.
It also underlines the extent to which reformers were dependent upon events to attract parliamentary attention to their cause.
Despite the admonitions of progressive welfare reformers, it seems unlikely that this policy will be reversed.
The book begins with three valuable theoretical lessons for pension reformers of all stripes.
Thirdly, and perhaps least recognized, there was an important policy logic to reformers' strategies in the veto-free/hierarchical regimes.
Other contributors concentrate on imports, transfers and the travels of reformers.
Safety experts, reformers, and other actors in this story rarely thought of themselves as operating on the periphery of the world of science and mathematics.
Finally, the political and economic upheaval undermined many of the principles the reformers stood for.
This historiographical division is matched by the divided opinions of reformers at the time.
At different moments public health reformers depicted workingclass women as either the most vulnerable group or as the primary agents of contagion.
Other leading tariff reformers were more tough-minded when it came to the question of what they could offer the agricultural community.
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