Review

Definition

review /rÇ'vju:/ n ၁။ [U,C] ျပန္လည္ဆန္းစစ္ျခင္း။ ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ ျခင္း။ The terms of the contract are subject to review periodically/every six months. ❍ carry out/conduct a radical review of manufacturing methods ❍ a rent review ❍ Our selection procedures are currently under review. ❍ Your case is coming up for review in May. ❍ a policy review body. ၂။ [C] အစီရင္ခံစာ။ ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ ခ်က္။ publish an annual/ monthly review of progress ❍ present a review of the year's sport ❍ a wide-ranging review of recent developments in wildlife conservation. ၃။ [C] ေဝဖန္ခ်က္။ ေဝဖန္စာ။ The play got excellent/ mixed/ unfavourable reviews in the American press. ❍ His production of ‘Macbeth’ opened to rave reviews. ၄။ [C] ( fml ) တပ္စစ္ေဆးျခင္း အခမ္းအနား။ hold a review of the fleet. v ၁။ (က) ျပန္လည္ဆန္းစစ္သည္။ The council met to review the budget. ❍ The government is reviewing the situation. (ခ) ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္သည္။ review one's successes and failures ❍ review one's progress. ၂။ ေဝဖန္စာ ေရးသည္။ The play was (well/ favourably) reviewed in the Daily Mail. ၃။ တပ္စစ္ေဆးျခင္း အခမ္းအနား က်င္းပသည္။ ❏ reviewer n ေဝဖန္ခ်က္ေရးသူ၊ စာေပေဝဖန္ေရးသမား စသည္။ The Washington Post's book reviewer ❍ a play which reviewers have praised highly.

Examples

1. [review of] : A review of all government policy affecting the environment was announced.
2. [undertake/conduct a review of something] : The committee has agreed to undertake a review of the way in which public funds are being used.
3. [subject to review] : The decision is not subject to review.
4. [under review] : Several aspects of prison practices are currently under review.
5. [review of] : A thorough review of literature on vocational training
6. A review of a new Broadway musical
7. [rave reviews] : The film also won rave reviews in America.
8. Don’t miss class tomorrow – we’re having a review of chapters three and four.