Definition of "amendments" []

• Plural form of amendment. (noun)

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• "The difference between the amendments is the Cornyn version takes the funds from a surcharge on illegal immigrants applying for legal status – the Clinton version takes the funds from the usual source: American Taxpayers"
• "He was much better tempered when he went off to business by the nine o'clock omnibus every morning; and before he had given himself such ridiculous airs, and put himself on all kinds of committees he didn't understand anything about, and taken to make himself disagreeable to his neighbours in the vestry-hall, and moving what he called amendments and riders, for the mere pleasure, she verily believed, of opposing somebody, as he did everybody in his own house, and of hearing himself talk."
• "Not only did they obtain amendments, which we call the Bill of Rights, but the critics also won a host of other assurances: states would retain their autonomy; the federal government would be allowed to impose few taxes other than tariffs; and the nation would rely mostly on state militias rather than a large standing army."