corrector

American  

[ker-ekt-er] / kərˈɛkt ər /

noun

• correctors
  plural

1. a person or thing that corrects issues or concerns.

2. a cosmetic product designed to obscure or reduce color differences in the skin.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• correctors
  plural

Example Sentences

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corrector correctors

There are lots of posture corrector straps, back braces and chairs that promise to change your life but "you just need to be moving around in the day".

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025

Guided by KHAOS, Carl futzed with the blind-spot corrector on Hayden’s Goggles, which made Hayden take a solid noggin-thumper in the hallway.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2020

Which brings me to what may be the most devastating revelation for the enthusiastic corrector: WE KNOW.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2014

In cell culture, low concentrations of these corrector molecules can reduce mitochondrial impairment and neuronal dysfunction6.

From Nature ● Jun. 3, 2014

Goldsmith at once applied for work, and became press corrector in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street.

From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton

While there are lots of braces and posture correctors on the market to wear on the go, the chiropractors we spoke with don’t recommend relying on one.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2018

Visual correctors might tighten, swell or numb your skin.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2012

Blemishes, meanwhile, face the likes of healing gels, blemish balm creams and dark-spot correctors.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2011

“But now the paper is nought, the composers boyes, and the correctors unlearned.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2011

Three of these were governed by proconsuls, thirty-seven by consuls, five by correctors, and seventy-one by presidents, chosen from the legal profession, and called clarissimi.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord