English-Dutch translations for amendment

• amendement
  Ik heb één mondeling amendement op amendement 59. I have one oral amendment to amendment 59.
  We stemmen tegen dat amendement. We will vote against that amendment.
  Na de stemming over amendement 16 After the vote on Amendment 16

Definition of amendment

• An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices
• Correction of an error in a writ or process
• That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something

Examples

• The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
• The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.
• a soil amendment

Related words

• amendment to the by-laws
• amendment to the constitution
• proposed amendment
• subject to amendment