Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\ (-t?*r?), a.
   Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
   
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Reformatory \Re*form"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. {-ries} (-r?z).
   An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
   
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         Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to
         reformatories instead of to prisons.     --Eng. Cyc.
   
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reformatory
     adj : tending to reform; "reformative and rehabilitative
           agencies"; "reformatory punishment" [syn: {reformative}]
     n : correctional institution for the detention and discipline
         and training of young or first offenders [syn: {reform  school}, {training school}]

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "reformatory":
   POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution,
   borstal school, bridewell, brig, can, cell, concentration camp,
   condemned cell, cooler, death cell, death house, death row,
   detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol,
   guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention,
   industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep,
   labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison,
   minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony,
   penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, pokey, prison,
   prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, remand school,
   sponging house, state prison, stir, stockade, the hole, tollbooth,
   training school