Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending or intended to correct.
- noun An agent that corrects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power to correct; having the quality of removing or counteracting what is wrong, erroneous, or injurious; tending to rectify: as, corrective penalties.
- noun That which has the power of correcting or amending; that which has the quality of removing or counteracting what is wrong or injurious: as, alkalis are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.
- noun Limitation; restriction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the power to correct; tending to rectify.
- adjective Qualifying; limiting.
- noun That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious.
- noun obsolete Limitation; restriction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
correction ; serving tocorrect - noun Something that corrects or
counteracts something, especially aninjury ordisability - noun obsolete
limitation ;restriction
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
- noun a device for treating injury or disease
- adjective designed to promote discipline
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Examples
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The 74-year-old Boswell spent time in the hospital this summer for what he described as a corrective procedure related to a major surgery three years ago.
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The 74-year-old Boswell spent time in the hospital this summer for what he described as a corrective procedure related to a major surgery three years ago.
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Thus, the court granted an injunction and damages for millions of dollars in corrective advertising.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Usually, no such corrective is available in politics.
Notes on Critical Review's Converse issue, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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President Obama has been only concerned with speed rather than long term corrective actions.
The Burning Platform 2009
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So the proposed corrective is overwhelmingly likely not to work.
Balkinization 2006
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"Yet the U.S. dollar, which clearly has no friends at all, didn't get even a short-term corrective bounce," said RBC Capital Markets senior economist Su-Lin Ong. "This is significant given the market has pared back expectations of Fed cuts and the market was pretty short U.S. dollars."
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When the writer of Hebrews pointed out that no discipline seems pleasant at the time, he was referring to corrective discipline, and he was essentially saying that if correction is not painful to the person corrected, it will have no effect.
Parenting by the Book John Rosemond 2007
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The current overbought/oversold situation for the major indices suggests that while there is some upside potential in this market, it comes with the risk of short-term corrective phases.
Overbought Bull Could Slip From Highs Chris Johnson 2006
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This brief citation of four major mistakes - I do not pretend that they are all - but this brief citation of four will help, I hope, to point the way to certain corrective measures.
Our National Task 1936
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