corrective

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Editorial note

Punishment is a corrective action, this breaks them even more.

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Quick take

a device for treating injury or disease

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of corrective gathered in one view.

noun

a device for treating injury or disease

adjective

designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"

adjective

tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for corrective.

noun

a device for treating injury or disease

adjective

designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"

adjective

tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"

Example sentences

Punishment is a corrective action, this breaks them even more.

What's been your corrective action?Power density per rack?

I can also understand that smug corrective comments might rankle and prompt objections.

Apple tried to argue that it would take at least 14 days to put a corrective statement on the site a claim that one judge said he "cannot believe".

We found one additional breaker that needed corrective action.

[snip] To be sure, the books of the future would be just as good a corrective as the books of the past, but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

Making a scene increases his blog's visibility and has a decent chance of resulting in corrective action.

I imagine also that vandalism control is improved, leading to less vandal edits and less corrective edits.

By getting them to answer questionnaires early in to the process, we were able to identify them and take corrective action...Anyway!

The even more infuriating thing about that quote in this context is that it ignores the corrective power of a democracy in crisis.

Of course it's the responsibility of the government to take corrective measures to ensure long term financial stability.

It is largely a function of the popular support for one's statement and the probability of it resulting in corrective behaviour.

The non-legal self-corrective mechanisms that used to provide social harmony, things we weren't even aware of, may be badly disrupted but a very large number of short term residents.

Lots of emphasis on corrective measures, just a passing mention of option clawbacks, with the reassurances that it "affected only a limited number of senior employees.

Government officials did something my family never would have done- they allowed products to contaminate the Trinity River for more than a month without taking corrective action.