Revise
revise (verb) - change in order to improve and update
revise a law
revise a legal decision
revise the assessment
revise the figures
revise the production figures
revise guidelines
revise without authorization
revise and update skills
revise estimates
revise estimates
revise down estimates
revise down estimates for economic growth this year
revise upwards
revise downwards
forced to revise
revise from Y to X
revise writing
revise and edit writing
revise a paragraph
revise an article
revise a report
revise work
revise the scheme
revise the pension scheme
revise policies
revise the constitution
revise objectives
revise goals
set revised goals for Y
revise scientific models
revise models of global warming
develop and revise your opinion
revise to reflect changes in Y
revise a contract
revise the terms of a contract
revise one's previous aversion to redheads
revise inventory stocks
a revised version
radically revise
extensively revise
thoroughly revise
completely revise
fully revise
heavily revise
drastically revise
substantially revise
revise as necessary
necessary to revise
have to revise
constantly revise
continually revise
Example sentences:
* "It would be helpful if the department could revise their guidelines in order that certain businesses could receive more protection under the law."
* "The Treasury Department in the past several weeks has been preparing economic forecasts for November and seems almost certain to revise down its estimates for economic growth next year."
* "Plans to revise that law have been discussed for decades and have been before legislators for eight years."
* "The Central Statistical Office (CSO) is already planning to revise its 1991 production figures.
* "Still worse, he took it on himself to revise Tyndale's translation of the New Testament without authorisation in an edition which was full of unscholarly amendments."
* "What employers will be interested in is the confidence and faith you have in yourself to revise and update your clinical skills in order to place them in a service context."
* "In response to growing criticisms of its economic policy, the government has decided to radically revise its original economic package."
* "Revise and edit your work."
* "An appeal triggers a reconsideration of the case by an adjudication officer who may revise the decision in the claimant's favour forthwith."
* "We urge the Government to revise the report it thoroughly before it is published."
* "On a day-to-day basis, I encourage them to sketch, to draft, to alter and revise, depending on the purpose and audience for their writing."
* "To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will revise the state earnings-related pension scheme to make higher pensions available for those people made redundant in their late 50s who are unlikely to obtain another job."
* "The first aim of the project is to complete the database, to revise it as necessary in order to arrive at an optimum design for future use, and to publish the final version in the form of a book of statistical tables."
* "He also said that he would press ahead with the controversial plans announced by his predecessor to revise the Constitution in such a way as to permit the despatch of Japanese troops to other countries."
* "Please evaluate and review the work programme and revise objectives appropriately."
* "A study into the rate of methane production from China's rice fields may lead climatologists to revise their models of global warming."
* "The results indicated that people benefited from being given more information, which enabled them to develop and in some cases revise their opinions."
* "A rent review is a procedure enabling a landlord and tenant to revise the amount of the rent payable under the terms of their lease to reflect changes in rental levels or circumstances: if they do not agree on the rental, the revision is referred to a third party."
* "I may revise my previous aversion to redheads!"
* "Could you revise paragraph ten, Fred?"
* "The revised policies have been approved."
* "The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of, say, one to three years, selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period."
* "When he was admitted to hospital I reassessed the situation and together Mrs Allen and I set some revised goals for her care."
