An overview of how a process or situation went. Reviews typically come after an assessment and can be both internal and external.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
review (noun)1.
a) a formal military inspection
b) a military ceremony honoring a person or an event
2.
- revision
3.
a general survey (as of the events of a period)
4.
an act or the process of - reviewing
5.
judicial reexamination (as of the proceedings of a lower tribunal by a higher)
6.
a) a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
b) a magazine devoted chiefly to and essays - reviews
7.
a) a retrospective view or survey (as of one's life)
b) (1) renewed study of material previously studied
(2) an exercise facilitating such study
8.
- revue
transitive verb
1.
ˈrē-ˌvyü to view or see again
2.
to examine or study again , especially to reexamine judicially
3.
to look back on take a retrospective view of - review the past
4.
a) to go over or examine critically or deliberately - reviewed the results of the study
b) to give a critical evaluation of - review a novel
5.
intransitive verb
to hold a review of - review troops
1.
to study material again make a review - review for a test
2.
to write - reviews
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
review (noun)1.
a usually critical look at a past event
SYNONYMS:
reappraisal, reconsideration, reexamination, retrospect, retrospectionRELATED WORDS:
recap, recapitulation, rehashNEAR ANTONYMS:
preview2.
a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition
SYNONYMS:
audit, check, checkup, examination, going-over, look-see, review, scan, scrutiny, survey, viewRELATED WORDS:
analysis, assay, close-up, deconstruction, dissection; exploration, investigation, probe, research, study; inquisition, interrogation; once-over, perusal; recheck, reinspection, resurvey; observation, surveillance, watch; checkout, test-drive, trial run3.
a publication that appears at regular intervals
SYNONYMS:
book, bulletin, diurnal, gazette, mag, magazine, newspaper, organ, paper, periodical, rag, review, serial, zineRELATED WORDS:
annual, bimonthly, biweekly, daily, monthly, quarterly, semimonthly, semiweekly, triweekly, weekly, yearbook; digest, little magazine; fanzine; pictorial, slick; broadside, edition, extra, sheet, supplement, tab, tabloid; newsletter, newsmagazine, newsweekly4.
an essay evaluating or analyzing something
SYNONYMS:
critique, examen, notice, reviewRELATED WORDS:
column, commentary, editorial, punditry; appraisal, assessment, evaluation; analysis, examination, opinion, outline, study, survey5.
the act, process, or result of making different
SYNONYMS:
alteration, difference, modification, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, review, revise, revision, reworking, variationRELATED WORDS:
amendment, correction, rectification, reform; conversion, deformation, distortion, metamorphosis, mutation, transfiguration, transformation; fluctuation, oscillation, shift; displacement, replacement, substitution; adjustment, modulation, regulation, tweak; redesign, redo1.
to consider again especially with the possibility of change or reversal
SYNONYMS:
readdress, reanalyze, reconceive, redefine, reevaluate, reexamine, reexplore, rethink, review, revisit, reweighRELATED WORDS:
rehear; reconceptualize, reenvision, reimagine; reappraise, reassess, reinvestigate, restudy; amend, correct, emend, rectify, reform, remedy, reviseNEAR ANTONYMS:
assert, defend, maintain, uphold2.
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)
SYNONYMS:
audit, check (out), con, examine, overlook, oversee, review, scan, scrutinize, survey, viewRELATED WORDS:
notice, observe, watch; comb, peruse, pore (over); analyze, dissect, parse; delve (into), explore, investigate, plumb, probe, research, study; categorize, classify; pick over; reinspect, rereview, resurveyNEAR ANTONYMS:
skim; glance (at over); miss, overlookExamination, judgment, review, estimation, inspection