amendment

Noun

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.
   • 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. - 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan...
   • 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. - 2024 March 12, ETSC, ETSC:
3. Correction of an error in a writ or process.
4. 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