0 a medical operation that tightens loose skin to make the face look younger
1 an improvement made to something to make it more modern or to change its appearance:
By the fourth face-lift (or third ?) we begin to look grotesque, no longer human.
It needs a face-lift and a new start.
Even to this day it has not been thought fit to include them in the town centre face-lift scheme.
It is also true that most of them will not be renovated or get the face-lift they require to the external appearance.
A face-lift is urgently needed throughout such areas and in itself this can help to attract new industries.
It undergoes the occasional face-lift, but its essential elements are passed lovingly from generation to generation.
I have been talking about giving a face-lift to our society in cleaning derelict buildings and sites.
Ever since she became leader of her party she has had everything done to her and for her except a face-lift.
