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Definition of Corrective

1. Noun. A device for treating injury or disease.

2. Adjective. Designed to promote discipline. "The mother was stern and disciplinary"

3. Adjective. Tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition. "Corrective lenses"

Definition of Corrective

1. a. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.

2. n. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.

Definition of Corrective

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct ¹

2. Noun. Something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) limitation; restriction ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Corrective

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Corrective

1. 1. Counteracting, modifying, or changing what is injurious. 2. A drug that modifies or corrects an undesirable or injurious effect of another drug. Synonym: corrigent. Origin: L. Cor-rigo (conr-), pp. -rectus, to set right, fr. Rego, to keep straight (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrective

correction officer correctional correctional facilities correctional facility correctional institution correctional institutions correctional officer correctional rehabilitation correctioner correctioners

corrections corrections officer corrections officers correctitude correctitudes corrective (current term) corrective emotional experience corrective rapes corrective shoe correctively

correctives correctly correctness correctnesses correctomundo corrector corrector magnet correctors correctory

Literary usage of Corrective

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cleaning Up the Nation's Waste Sites: Markets & Technology Trends (1993)
"Under RCRA §3011, EPA Regions also have developed grants and cooperative agreements, which may give the states the lead for corrective action oversight ..."

2. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (1827)
"ITS true corrective will be found when all shall unite, as all ought to unite, ... This " corrective" for duelling was proposed b^ the present Secretary of ..."

3. Juvenile Offenders by William Douglas Morrison (1897)
"under eighteen—The age of maturity—Maturity and intelligence—Age of admission to corrective institutions—Report of the Prisons Committee on the ..."

4. Vocations for the Trained Woman: Opportunities Other Than Teaching by Perkins, Agnes Frances, 1875- (1910)
"corrective WORK IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION* ROBERT \V. LOVETT, MD BOSTON By common consent the field of physical education is divided into two parts, ..."

5. Operation Provide Comfort: Review of U. S. Air Force Investigation of Black by Barbara W. Alsip, Neyla Arnas, Fred Chasnov, Richard E. Chervenak (1998)
"A discussion follows of some corrective actions spawned by the shootdown and the Aircraft Accident Investigation report. Beginning April 15,1994, ..."

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