corrective
tending to correct or rectify; remedial: corrective exercises.
a means of correcting; corrective agent.
Origin of corrective
1Other words from corrective
- cor·rec·tive·ly, adverb
- non·cor·rec·tive, adjective, noun
- non·cor·rec·tive·ly, adverb
- un·cor·rec·tive, adjective
Words Nearby corrective
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How to use corrective in a sentence
Safety Commission Chief Operating Officer Sharmila Samarasinghe said Tuesday the commission has approved 20 of 21 corrective action plans Metro was required to submit after the audit.
Metrorail system still has work to do on safety, board says | Justin George | January 27, 2021 | Washington PostFunnel analysis can also help you spot barriers that are inhibiting conversions so that you can take corrective action.
Selecting better KPIs for your business: What to consider and how to bolster your most important metric | George Nguyen | January 7, 2021 | Search Engine LandIn April of 2019, Clarke and Wyden introduced a bill, the Algorithmic Accountability Act, that would require big companies to audit their machine-learning systems for bias and take corrective action in a timely manner if such issues were identified.
Congress wants answers from Google about Timnit Gebru’s firing | Karen Hao | December 17, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewMiSight 1 day corrective contact lenses are the first to slow the pace in children at the critical ages 8 to 12, when myopia is typically diagnosed and still relatively mild.
Beyond benchmarks for measuring progress, safety commission members asked Samarasinghe who would hold Metro accountable for making the necessary changes once its corrective action plans are approved.
Metro’s plans to correct safety deficiencies in its rail operations center sent back for more work | Justin George | November 11, 2020 | Washington Post
As far as I was concerned, once I had corrective surgery I was just a female.
Exclusive: Michael Phelps’s Intersex Self-Proclaimed Girlfriend, Taylor Lianne Chandler, Tells All | Aurora Snow | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs a cultural corrective, Hayes is currently touring in a one-man show titled Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes.
The Unbelievable (True) Story of the World’s Most Infamous Hash Smuggler | Marlow Stern | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTcorrective action was taken to address this issue swiftly.
No matter: The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a welcome corrective to the myths and misconceptions.
And the rational corrective is invariably slow and painstaking.
Boston Marathon Attacks Will Now Define Terrorism For Americans | Hussein Ibish | April 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIts increasing independence of the ostensible career makes it the organ of corrective criticism; it accumulates disturbing energy.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsThe only check or corrective is, constant verification by psychological and ethological laws.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillBut a splendid corrective came soon afterwards in the crowning naval victory of Trafalgar.
The World's Greatest Books, Vol X | VariousOften intellectual labor is the true antidote and corrective of this state of feeling.
The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender BrackettThe readiest and surest corrective for the excessive greed of our girls for society is to carry on the system of co-education.
The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender Brackett
British Dictionary definitions for corrective
/ (kəˈrɛktɪv) /
tending or intended to correct
something that tends or is intended to correct
Derived forms of corrective
- correctively, adverb
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