B2nounpoliticssociety
US/rɪˈfɔːr.mər/
UK/rɪˈfɔː.mə/
a person who works to change and improve a system, law or institution
In context
She became a leading reformer of the prison system in the 1980s.
The new minister is seen as a reformer who wants to modernize schools.
Social reformers fought for shorter working hours and better pay.
Words that go with reformer
adjective + noun
- social reformerMany social reformers worked to end child labor.
- political reformerHe was a political reformer, not a revolutionary.
- radical reformerThe radical reformer wanted to change the whole tax system.
- leading reformerThe city mourned its leading reformer.
noun + preposition
- reformer ofShe was a famous reformer of the education system.
- reformer andHe was both a reformer and a businessman.