Amendment

Definitions: Amendment

Amendment

Noun

1. The act of amending.

2. A statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.).

Date "amendment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Amendment \A*mend"ment\, noun. [French expression amendement, Late Latin expression amendamentum.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Amendment

Domain	Definitions
Economics	An addition, deletion, or modification of a document. (references)
Law	Formal proposal to change the language of a bill after it has been introduced. Amendments must be submitted to Legislative Counsel for drafting. Author's Amendments - Amendments proposed by the bill's author anytime after bill introduction. In committee they are amendments placed in the bill prior to the committee hearing that are subject to the committee chair's approval.Hostile Amendments - Amendments proposed by another member and opposed by the author in a committee hearing or during Assembly or Senate Floor consideration. (references)
Meteorology & Standards	Modification, addition or deletion of specific parts of the content of a normative document. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Amendment

Synonyms: emendation, reformation. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Amendment

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Improvement	Noun: improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; Verb: advancement; advance; (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Amendment

English words defined with "amendment": Act of Uniformity, amendatory ♦ bootlegging ♦ Castigatory, cruel and unusual punishment ♦ double jeopardy ♦ Eighteenth Amendment, eminent domain, equal protection of the laws ♦ Fifth Amendment, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, freedom from double jeopardy, freedom from involuntary servitude, freedom from search and seizure, freedom from self-incrimination, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to bear arms ♦ Mendment ♦ prohibition, prohibition era ♦ reform school, right to an attorney, right to confront accusors, right to due process, right to speedy and public trial by jury, right to vote ♦ suffrage, Supplemental bill ♦ take the Fifth, take the Fifth Amendment, Twentieth Amendment ♦ vote. (references)

Specialty definitions using "amendment": Agricultural Adjustment Act Amendment of 1935, amendment date, Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute, amendment record, Amendments ♦ CDA, change in the collectively agreed rate of pay, change record, Communications Decency Act, Constitutional Amendment ♦ date of amendment, Dealer trust ♦ ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST ♦ Five Minute Rule, forecast amendment ♦ Generally Recognized as Safe, Ground-Water Disinfection Rule ♦ Health Care Reform ♦ legislative advocate ♦ Most-favored-nation treatment, Moving the Previous Question ♦ PLANNER, PROGRAM SERVICES, Privacy Act, Pro Forma Amendment ♦ Reading for Amendment ♦ Section 22, Section 32, soil amendment, Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program, STAFF TOXICOLOGIST, Steagall Amendment of 1941, Substitute Amendment ♦ Terms of Sale ♦ vested rights, vesting rights. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Amendment" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (amendment).

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Modern Usage: Amendment

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Fifth amendment to the constitution? (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing astroturf and the designated hitter. (Bull Durham; writing credit: Ron Shelton.)

When we put this thing away, you can brand the 4th amendment on my butt. (Face/Off; writing credit: Mike Werb; Michael Colleary)

The First Amendment gives us the right to say what we want. (Scary Movie; writing credit: Shawn Wayans; Marlon Wayans)

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Commercial Usage: Amendment

Domain	Title
Books	Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, and the First Amendment (reference) Father Gander Nursery Rhymes: The Equal Rhymes Amendment (reference) Final Freedom : The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (reference) First Amendment Law in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series.) (reference) The Seven Myths of Gun Control: Reclaiming the Truth About Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Amendment Service To The Registered Clubs Industrial Manual (reference) Health Service Management Amendment (reference) Infos Index Amendment Service (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Image Slideshow: Amendment

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Photo Album: Amendment

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Fifteenth Amendment.Credit: Library of Congress.		The constitutional amendment!.Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Fifteenth Amendment and its results.Credit: Library of Congress.		The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of the African race in America and its final accomplishment, and celebration on May 19th A.D. 1870.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Senate adopts Byrd amendment condemning national defense strikes.Credit: Library of Congress.		"Put this on - you're obviously not covered by the First Amendment" / Herblock.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Mrs. James Rector of Columbus, Ohio consulting with W.D. Jameson on the suffrage amendment in the Tennessee legislature, with Miss Anita Pollitzer of Charleston, S.C., and Miss Sue White of Nashville, Tenn.] / Service Photographic Co., Columbus, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress.		Demonstration given by 100,000 people at Navin Field against the school amendment, Sunday, October 31, 1920.Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Fifteenth amendment.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Amendment

Author	Quotation
Justice William J. Brennan	But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.
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Historic Usage: Amendment

Author	Date	Quotation
Magna Carta	1215	Since, moveover, for God and the amendment of our kingdom and for the better allaying of the quarrel that has arisen between us and our barons, we have granted all these concessions, desirous that they should enjoy them in complete and firm endurance forever, we give and grant to them the underwritten security, namely, that the barons choose five and twenty barons of the kingdom, whomsoever they will, who shall be bound with all their might, to observe and hold, and cause to be observed, the peace and liberties we have granted and confirmed to them by this our present Charter, so that if we, or our justiciar, or our bailiffs or any one of our officers, shall in anything be at fault towards anyone, or shall have broken any one of the articles of this peace or of this security, and the offense be notified to four barons of the foresaid five and twenty, the said four barons shall repair to us (or our justiciar, if we are out of the realm) and, laying the transgression before us, petition to have that transgression redressed without delay. (reference)
John Locke	1690	If the legislative, or any part of it, be made up of representatives chosen for that time by the people, which afterwards return into the ordinary state of subjects, and have no share in the legislature but upon a new choice, this power of chusing must also be exercised by the people, either at certain appointed seasons, or else when they are summoned to it; and in this latter case ' the power of convoking the legislative is ordinarily placed in the executive, and has one of these two limitations in respect of time: that either the original constitution requires their assembling and acting at certain intervals, and then the executive power does nothing but ministerially issue directions for their electing and assembling, according to due forms; or else it is left to his prudence to call them by new elections, when the occasions or exigencies of the public require the amendment of old, or making of new laws, or the redress or prevention of any inconveniencies, that lie on, or threaten the people. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Constitution	1791	Vermont, in convention, ratified the Constitution January 10, 1791, and was, by an act of Congress approved February 18, 1791, "received and admitted into this Union as a new and entire member of the Note 12: The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States (and two others, one of which failed of ratification and the other which later became the 27th amendment) were proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the First Congress on September 25, 1789. (reference)
US Bill of Rights	1795	Amendment VIII. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. (reference)
Amendment to US Constitution	1795-1992	But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	No such amendment shall bind any Member of the League which signifies its dissent therefrom, but in that case it shall cease to be a Memb,er of the League. (reference)
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	The history of the Fourteenth Amendment is inconclusive as to its intended effect on public education. (reference)
Miranda v. Arizona	1966	In the absence of other effective measures, the following procedures to safeguard the Fifth Amendment privilege must be observed: the person in custody must, prior to interrogation, be clearly informed that he has the right to remain silent, and that anything he says will be used against him in court; he must be clearly informed that he has the right to consult with a lawyer and to have the lawyer with him during interrogation, and that, if he is indigent, a lawyer will be appointed to represent him. (reference)
Roe v. Wade	1973	Ruling that declaratory, though not injunctive, relief was warranted, the court declared the abortion statutes void as vague and overbroadly infringing those plaintiffs' Ninth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Amendment

Title	Author	Quote
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	What likelihood of his amendment, Lords?
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Non-Fiction Usage: Amendment

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Public Law 99-457 is an amendment to Public Law 94-142 that assists states in providing special educational services for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. (references)
Business		A Civil Code amendment protects buyers purchasing goods on the Internet. (references)
		Industry representatives are concerned that the amendment allows up to 10 percent of bytes to be copied from the Internet. (references)
		In particular, the recent July 2000 amendment to the "Labeling Standards for Food" includes major changes to the requirements for labeling. (references)
Children	New Zealand	The Human Rights Amendment Act passed in 1999 introduced a new standard for government compliance to replace the exemption for government that expired during the year. (references)
Civil Liberties	Malaysia	Many students, NGO's, and opposition political parties called for the repeal or amendment of the act. (references)
	Ghana	On July 27, Parliament repealed the Criminal Libel and Seditious Laws through an amendment to the Criminal Code. (references)
Discrimination	Malaysia	On August 1, the Parliament unanimously approved a Constitutional amendment barring discrimination on the basis of sex. (references)
Economic History	New Zealand	An amendment in 1988 provided civil remedies for loss or damages resulting from insider trading. (references)
	Pakistan	Another amendment prohibited elected members from "floor crossing" or voting against party lines. (references)
Human Rights	Ghana	In July Parliament repealed the Criminal Libel and Seditious Laws through an amendment to the Criminal Code. (references)
	Zimbabwe	In April 2000, Parliament passed a constitutional amendment permitting the seizure of land without compensation. (references)
	Honduras	In April Congress ratified a constitutional amendment to restructure the Supreme Court and create an independent judiciary. (references)
Indigenous People	South Africa	Traditional leaders and government representatives met several times during the year to discuss the relative roles of traditional leaders and municipal structures with the aim of drafting a legislative amendment setting out these roles. (references)
	Australia	The mandate of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, created by Parliament in 1991, expired in 2000. The Council's final report was released in December 2000, and it included recommendations that the federal and state governments set performance benchmarks and timelines for overcoming Aboriginal disadvantage and enact legislation to further the principles of legislation; that Parliament prepare legislation providing for a referendum on deleting a constitutional amendment on racial criteria for voting; and that the Constitution be amended to make racial discrimination unlawful. (references)
Minorities	Estonia	In addition the amendment provides that the quota will not apply to children up to 15 years of age if the parents are applying for a residence permit. (references)
Political Economy	TAIWAN	The amendment also de-criminalizes the infringement of invention patents. (references)
	Pakistan	The Brown Amendment enacted in 1996 provided some relief from the Pressler sanctions. (references)
	TAIWAN	Patents: An amendment to the Patent Law was passed by the legislature in October 2001. (references)
Political Rights	Tanzania	President Mkapa ratified the amendment in February. (references)
	Hong Kong	Procedures for amendment or interpretations that originate in the mainland are unclear. (references)
	Belgium	By year's end, the proposed amendment remained under consideration by the Chamber of Representatives. (references)
Trade	Australia	The 1989 amendment also increases the amount of inland freight that can be included in the dutiable value of the goods. (references)
	Sweden	All the above-mentioned types of banks are - since the amendment of banking legislation in 1969 - entitled to operate in all areas of banking. (references)
	Mexico	Around every April 15, Mexico publishes, in the Diario Oficial, its annual standardization program with a subsequent amendment published in the fall of the same year. (references)
Women	Zimbabwe	The Administration of Estates Amendment Act makes inheritance laws more favorable to widows. (references)
	Switzerland	Although mandated by a constitutional amendment in 1945, no federal law on maternity insurance exists. (references)
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	A 1995 amendment to the Child Support Law allows for payments ordered by the courts, even when notice of an appeal has been filed. (references)
Worker Rights	Bulgaria	Under this amendment, workers no longer have the right to appeal when a strike is declared illegal. (references)
	Bulgaria	The Podkrepa labor union has complained that a 1998 amendment to a labor law has made it easier for the Government to declare a strike illegal. (references)
	Honduras	Industry leaders, in turn, contend that the obsolete and cumbersome Labor Code discourages foreign investment and requires significant amendment. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Amendment

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	Where previously annual reports were elaborate, richly colored multi-media presentations, today many corporations simply send out a one-page mimeograph of the Fifth Amendment.
Elizabeth Dole	First of all, let me say I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment to the Constitution and protecting the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. In fact, I believe you're looking at the first woman to ever address the NRA.
John Walsh	I don't think so. I really think that the media, you know, looking to fill a lot of air time, is saying, Well, this country was built on freedoms and the First Amendment rights and, you know, you'll be accusing your neighbor, et cetera.
Rush Limbaugh	An amendment process was put in place to right wrongs like slavery which needed fixing.
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Speeches: Amendment

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	The consular act relative to sea men requires revision and amendment.
James Monroe	1817-1825	In communicating this result I can not resist the obligation which I feel to suggest to Congress the propriety of recommending to the States the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution which shall give to Congress the right in question.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Even that alternative was not spoken of but in connection with an amendment of the Constitution.
William H. Taft	1909-1913	While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed, and the tendency of Southern legislation today is toward the enactment of electoral qualifications which shall square with that amendment.
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	Many influences had increasingly complicated and weakened our law enforcement organization long before the adoption of the eighteenth amendment.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	We are not neglecting the safeguards provided by peril points, an escape clause, or the National Security Amendment.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment must be aggressively pursued.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	I believe Congress should pass our school prayer amendment.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	But if you're going to pass this amendment, you have to be straight with the American people.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Amendment

"Amendment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.70% of the time. "Amendment" is used about 1,618 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	93.7%	1,516	5,382
Noun (proper)	6.17%	100	32,668
Noun (common)	0.12%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	1,618	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Amendment

Expressions using "amendment": amendment date ♦ amendment proposal ♦ amendment record ♦ constitutional amendment ♦ date of amendment ♦ direct amendment of a documentary credit message ♦ eighteenth Amendment ♦ equal rights amendment ♦ fifth amendment ♦ first amendment ♦ forecast amendment ♦ fourteenth amendment ♦ soil amendment ♦ take the Fifth Amendment ♦ twentieth Amendment. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "amendment": anti-amendment, first-amendment.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amendment

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
amendment	514	amendment federal marriage	58
first amendment	461	soil amendment	56
14th amendment	344	8th amendment	47
amendment to the constitution	199	27 amendment	46
second amendment	174	14 amendment	45
22nd amendment	172	thirteenth amendment	43
constitutional amendment	160	21st amendment	43
19th amendment	157	amendment to the us constitution	41
13th amendment	142	26th amendment	39
fourteenth amendment	124	10 amendment	37
2nd amendment	119	amendment buckley	35
fifth amendment	117	6th amendment	35
4th amendment	110	amendment platt	33
fourth amendment	108	10th amendment	33
5th amendment	104	17th amendment	33
equal right amendment	103	25th amendment	32
1st amendment	103	sixth amendment	31
15th amendment	96	the fifteenth amendment	29
18th amendment	78	nineteenth amendment	28
16th amendment	64	13 amendment	27
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Modern Translations: Amendment

Language		Translations for "amendment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		amendering, amendement. (various references)

Albanian		amendament, përmirësim (amelioration, betterment, development, elevation, enhancement, improvement, melioration, pickup, progress, rally, reclamation, refinement, reform, reformation, rise, upswing, upturn), ndryshim (alteration, change, difference, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, distinction, inflection, inflexion, innovation, manipulation, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, permutation, recast, reversal, reverse, shift, shifting, switch, transit, transition, turn, variation), ndreqje (adjustment, correction, disposition, dressing, mending, rectification, refit, refitment, reform, repair, restoration, settlement), korrigjim (amelioration, correction, emendation, equalization, readjustment, reclaim, reclamation, rectification, redress, reform, reformation, repair, retrieval, vetting). (various references)

Arabic		‏تنقيح (correction, emendation, redaction, retouch, review, revise, revision), ‏تحسين (amelioration, elaboration, improvement, perfection, refinement), ‏تعديل (adjustment, alteration, arrangement, conformation, correction, focussing, mend, mitigation, modification, modulation, overhaul, permutation, revise). (various references)

Bulgarian		поправка (alteration, correction, patching, rectification, renovation, repair, reparation, restoration), подобрение (amelioration, betterment, correction, fertilization, improvement, melioration, pickup, progress, rally, retrieval), изменение (alteration, change, change over, innovation, mutation, permutation, turn, variation). (various references)

Chinese		� �正 (revised, revising). (various references)

Czech		zmìna (alteration, break, change, changeover, mutation, relief, revision, shift, transformation, variance, variation, vicissitude), pozmìòovací návrh, oprava (correction, mending, repair). (various references)

Danish		ændringsforslag (proposed modification, tabling amendments), ændring (about-face, alteration, change, conversion, modification, override, transformation). (various references)

Dutch		amendement. (various references)

Esperanto		amendo, amendamento. (various references)

Farsi		تصحیح (Correction, Rectification, Redress), اصلاح (Adjustment, Correction, Reconciliation, Reformation, Regeneration, Renovation, Repair, Reparation, Revision). (various references)

Finnish		muutos (alteration, change, change-over, modification, mutation, transition, translation, variation). (various references)

French		amendement (AMDT, amending of smth.), modification (amending regulation, amendment record), avenant (amendment to contract). (various references)

Frisian		amendemint, feroaringsútstel. (various references)

German		berichtigung (adjustment, correction, correction of error, rectification). (various references)

Greek		τροπολογία (modification), τροποποίηση (alteration, alternation, modification, qualification). (various references)

Hebrew		תקון (correction, emendation, improvement, modification, reform, reformation, regulation, repair), טיוב (betterment, improvement, reclamation). (various references)

Hungarian		módosítás (alteration, altering, modification, qualification). (various references)

Indonesian		amandemen, usul perbaikan. (various references)

Italian		emendamento (AMDT). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�正 (alteration, revision), 修正 (alteration, correction, modification, retouching, revision, update). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅうせい (adjustment, aggregation, all one's life, alteration, correction, lifelong, modification, retouching, revision, sound of the autumn wind, trait, update), かいせい (alteration, changing one's family name, good weather, harmonious voice, Kaisei, resurrection, resuscitation, revision, vocal harmony). (various references)

Korean		개� � (Correction, rectification, revision). (various references)

Manx		lhiasaghey (appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season). (various references)

Pig Latin		amendmentay

Portuguese		emenda (converting, emendation, glue line, joining, patch, rectification, redress, reformation, seam, splice, splicing). (various references)

Romanian		rectificare (amendament, correction, rectification, reduction). (various references)

Russian		поправка (amdt, correction, modification, rectification). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		amandman, popravka (correction, emendation, improvement, mending, repair), dopuna (addition, complement, obverse, supplement). (various references)

Spanish		enmienda (compensation, correction, emendation, improvement, rectification, smartmoney). (various references)

Swedish		rättelse (emendation). (various references)

Turkish		yasayı değiştirme, yasa değişikliği, iyileştirme (reclamation, recruitment, rehabilitation, restoration, therapy, uplift), düzeltme (adjustment, correcting, correction, emendation, improvement, melioration, proofreading, readjustment, recension, rectification, refinement, reformation, retouch, trimming). (various references)

Ukranian		усунення (abolishment, abolition, amputation, dethronement, disposal, elimination, obviation, preclusion, removal, withdrawal), виправлення (betterment, castigation, correction, emendation, reclaim, reclamation, rectification, redress, reform, reformation, reparation, retrieval), звільнення (acquittal, acquittance, affranchisement, bounce, deliverance, disengagement, dismissal, dismission, ejection, emancipation, enfranchisement, enlargement, exemption, exoneration, freedom, immunity, liberation, push, quit, quittance, release, remission, remittal), поліпшувач грунту, поліпшення (advance, betterment, enhancement, improvement, melioration, mend, mending), полегшення (alleviation, appeasement, ease, easement, extenuation, relief). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự h�"i phục sức khoẻ, sự cải thiện (amelioration, improvement, melioration, mend), sự cải t� quy chánh sự sửa đổi cho tốt hơn, sự b�"i bổ cho tốt hơn sự sửa đổi. (various references)

Welsh		gwelliant (improvement). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Amendment

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	correctio, correctionis. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Amendment

Derivations
	Words beginning with "amendment": amendments. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Amendment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: admendment, amandment, amedment, amendament, amendement, amendemnt, amendmen, amendmend, amentment, ammendmen, ammendment. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Amendment"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "amendment" (pronounced ume"ndmunt)
6	-n d m u n t	commandment, impoundment.
5	-d m u n t	bombardment.
4	-m u n t	abandonment, abatement, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, claimant, Clement, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment.
3	-u n t	aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Amendment

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-m-m-n-n-t"
	-2 letters: meatmen.
	-3 letters: anteed, demean, dement, ennead, madmen, manned, meated, neaten, tandem, tanned, teamed.
	-4 letters: adeem, admen, amend, ament, anent, anted, eaten, edema, emend, emmet, enate, enema, maned, mated, meant, menad, menta, meted, named, tamed.
	-5 letters: amen, ante, dame, damn, date, dean, deem, deet, deme, dene, dent, etna, made, mane, mate, mead, mean, meat, meed.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-m-m-n-n-t"
	+1 letter: amendments.
	+3 letters: misdemeanant.
	+4 letters: dismantlement, misdemeanants.
	+5 letters: dismantlements, monumentalized, recommendation.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.