Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.] Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
Civil service reform. See under Civil.
Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament.
Reform school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See Reformation.
Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) A penal institution for juveniles, especially males.
WordNet
n. correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders [syn: reformatory, training school]
Wikipedia
In the United States, a reform school was a penal institution, generally for teenagers. In the United Kingdom and its colonies the term " Industrial School" and later " Borstal" referred to reform schools. Separate schools accommodated delinquent girls or boys.
"Reform School" is a song by American rapper Boldy James featuring Earl Sweatshirt, Da$H, and Domo Genesis, released as the third single from his debut studio album My 1st Chemistry Set. It was produced by The Alchemist. The single was released digitally on October 7, 2013.
Usage examples of "reform school".
So he steals off to Nikolay College with everything he knows, and one evening a year later WESCAC tells us how two thousand political-science flunkees was just EATen alive in a Nikolayan reform school, and not by WESCAC.
Fortunately you weren't sent back to the same reform school and you found a Warden who knew how to handle you and you began to straighten out.
On leaving reform school you were put in a hostel under the care of a probation officer and you did pretty well at high school.
The first time I was in reform school, one of the bigger kids rolled on me.
It's almost a relief when he and Msimangu (close friends by then) learn at last that Absalom is in reform school for burglary.
They got him for lifting paper from his stepfather's wallet, and after only five years in reform school he was on the path of virtue.
I thought about my time in reform school and how much I'd hated it.
The only other thing Greeley could do was to bring the boy up on charges and you can't send a kid of ten to reform school, not unless you want him to come out with a size eleven asshole, not unless you wanted your new wife to divorce you.
But when I was sent to the reform school and she died I began to hate my grandfather.