🔄 Making changes ⚖️ Able to review decisions 🧑‍🏫 A reformer

revisionary

7.5

An authority that can review and change official decisions

adjective
/rɪˈvɪʒəˌnɛri/

Formal

: revisional

Judges often have revisionary powers to review and amend previous rulings to ensure justice.

Examples

It would be insane to give revisionary powers to people you can't turn out of office.

Academic text (2010)
The committee has revisionary authority to alter existing regulations based on new evidence.
Reconsidered, it was advanced by Shulman's revisionary definition of the term almost a decade later.

Academic text (2005)
In her role as a revisionary official, she had the ability to change outdated policies for the better.

Synonyms

amendatory

vsrevisionary

Formal

1 9.8

Changing a document or law to make it correct and clear

is about holding authority to review and change official decisions or laws

revisional

vsrevisionary

6.7

Relating to a change made to an earlier procedure, operation, or document

is about having power to review and change official decisions or laws

How Authoritative

ultimate

2 5.2

revisionary

Formal

7.5

empowered

Formal

5 4.2

restricted

18 3.9

unauthorized

110 4.5

Surface Forms

revisionary positive

Morphology

revisionary = revision (semi-transparent) = revision + ary

Formed by 'revision' + '-ary' is structurally clear, but the specialized legal/administrative sense of having authority to review is a domain-specific extension not obvious to average learners.

Etymology

Revisionary comes from the parts re- 'again' and the same root as vision 'see'. Think of it as 'seeing again' to decide if something should be changed, which is why a revisionary authority can look again at a decision and change it.