social reformer
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈsoʊʃəl rɪˈfɔːrmər/
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reformador social
- After years of activism, she was recognized as a prominent social reformer who advocated for equal rights.
Examples
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What is forgotten, above all, is his role as a social reformer and a founder of the British welfare state.
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Florence Kelley, a noted social reformer of the 1920s who opposed the ERA, is also ignored.
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Mother told us of your sympathy for the social reformers.
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Social reformers responded to these studies on a wide scale.
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Much has been written on the temptation schools present to social reformers.
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Social reformers increasingly recognized the broad consequences of addiction.
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Like many other social reformers and religious revivalists of the day, Finney employed the language of "science" to support his views.
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In recent interviews with hundreds of female leaders in over 30 countries, I have discovered that where women have taken leadership roles, it has been as social reformers and entrepreneurs, not as politicians or government officials.
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Social reformers tended to privilege slow character change through the modification of habitual behavior.
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136 British Spiritualist, Theosophist, and social reformer Anna Kingsford may count as another.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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4.2
Caring about people in need and helping them
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3.5
A person who works to make society or its institutions better
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5.6
A person who campaigns strongly for social or political change
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6.1
A person who wants to change political or social systems
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4.3
A person who works to make positive change in a community or organization
A person who fights for fairness and equal rights for everyone
A person who believes people can make the world better by working for change
A person who wants big changes in society or public institutions
How Radical
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining social (relating to society) with reformer (someone who works to change or improve institutions); there is no hidden idiomatic shift. This straightforward adjective+noun composition is cross-linguistically common and would be readily understood by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Social reformer joins social, meaning 'about society', and reformer, meaning 'someone who makes changes'. Imagine a person who sees unfair rules or poor services and works to change them to help people, so the phrase means 'a person who works to improve society'.