Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Remedial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Remedial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
correct orimprove adeficiency orproblem . - adjective rare, archaic, education Intended to
correct orimprove deficient skills in some subject.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb set straight or right
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Examples
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In meetings with Ecuadorean officials he offered to clean up, or "remediate," some of the waste pits and to offset or remedy certain other problems in the concession area, in return for a release from further liability.
Jungle Law Langewiesche, William 2007
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The Americans killed in Iraq will not have died in vain if their sacrifice keeps other Americans from dying in neo-con wars to "remediate" Syria, Iran, or North Korea.
History’s Fools 2004
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The Americans killed in Iraq will not have died in vain if their sacrifice keeps other Americans from dying in neo-con wars to "remediate" Syria, Iran, or North Korea.
History’s Fools 2004
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Others include Vontu and Patron Systems, whose software also detects potentially explosive e-mail and messages and either allows senders to "remediate" them or takes action like blocking messages from being sent.
Stop That E-Mail! Mary Jander 2006
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According to TheNew Castle News, the school board there elected to open his contract because he didn't follow board instructions to "remediate" complaints brought by 3 players who accused Smiley of abusive treatment and vulgar language.
unknown title 2009
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"remediate" the status quo ante — the first railway coaches, for example, being coaches on rails.
Golgonooza Text 2005
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The School Board and HHS Principal Irene Reynolds 'decision to "remediate" teenagers with sleep-deprivation illustrates that public schools do not exist for our youth's welfare and education, but their assimilation into a lifetime of alienated toil at the hands of uncaring bureaucracies ( "
Daily News-Record 2009
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The School Board and HHS Principal Irene Reynolds 'decision to "remediate" teenagers with sleep-deprivation illustrates that public schools do not exist for our youth's welfare and education, but their assimilation into a lifetime of alienated toil at the hands of uncaring bureaucracies ( "
Daily News-Record 2009
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But we have been organizing public finance to remediate problems buffers against unemployment, entitlements for lack of old age savings, warehousing of failures in prisons rather to invest in positive futures that would prevent these problems from arising in the first place.
How to fix higher education: Doug Bennett, Earlham College Daniel de Vise 2011
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The settlement doesn't cover home builders, insurance companies and suppliers that used KPT drywall, some of which have spent large sums to remediate the problem on their own.
Homeowners Win Settlement on Chinese Drywall Dawn Wotapka 2011
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