Definition of corrective in English:

corrective

adjective kəˈrɛktɪvkəˈrɛktɪv

Designed to correct or counteract something harmful or undesirable.
management were informed so that corrective action could be taken
Example sentencesExamples
- Poorly designed policies can delay corrective steps and create monopoly.
- Project Managers make extra efforts in codifying the mistakes made and corrective steps taken before any project is closed out.
- We have implemented corrective action for all those possible causes.
- He said that had ‘exacerbated the losses by delaying and distracting the board from swift and corrective action’.
- By spending time on preventive maintenance now, you can save time on corrective maintenance in the future.
- Wouldn't it be more irresponsible of them to not take corrective action?
- They still need to take corrective action regarding the inaccurate navigation charts.
- Then representatives visit the site and make recommendations on corrective measures to put things right.
- In England he applied his theories to dance education and also to designing corrective exercises for factory workers.
- This form of production is unique to Ireland and these farmers are facing a very uncertain future unless corrective action is taken.
- It is only when it is present in large numbers that there is a need to take corrective action.
- It can then pass on operator instructions and corrective actions to the ‘guilty’ machine.
- In other words, military service would equal corrective discipline.
- Everyone knows baby boomers will strain future budgets, yet there's no clamor for corrective policies.
- If a plan of corrective action is needed, the instructions and time frame are explained.
- Protective goggles are necessary in an industrial environment, and may be corrective or non-corrective.
- Thirdly, our work hints at corrective techniques that might be used to counteract prognostic error.
- Why wasn't I hurrying to a phone to call and get corrective instructions to the appropriate building?
- For more serious violations covered by the penal code, housemates could be sent to corrective labour colonies or camps.
- About 100,000 people who are tired of wearing glasses or contact lenses undergo corrective laser eye surgery in the UK every year.
Synonyms
remedial, therapeutic, restorative, curative, reparatory, reparative, rehabilitative, ameliorative
correctional, punitive, penal, disciplinary, disciplinarian, castigatory, reformatory
rare penitentiary, punitory, castigative

noun kəˈrɛktɪvkəˈrɛktɪv

A thing intended to correct or counteract something else.
the move might be a corrective to some inefficient practices within hospitals
Example sentencesExamples
- In doing so, he offers important correctives to the seminal work on the subject undertaken by Dieter Langewiesche, and a bold new statement of the role played by migration in 19th century society.
- The necessary correctives, after all, would have to be brutal.
- This significant issue - the unauthorized disclosure of classified intelligence - has been extraordinarily resistant to correctives.
- He no longer sees computers as aids but as correctives, ways of ‘fixing’ past movies.
- While his specific correctives continue to be ignored or treated as quaint or whimsical, the book has appeal for the modern reader.
- While this survey cannot empirically offer definitive conclusions for the cultural operation of the talk show genre at large, a number of significant patterns may provide correctives for the bulk of literature on this genre.
- All these are unheralded natural correctives taken on by our society, which doesn't allow itself to be easily suborned from above.
- Even if the government finds out ways to prevent litigants taking upper hand in the days to come, it will be too late to take correctives in the short run.
- Finally, it would appear to me that in the process of introducing correctives to the earlier literature on Japanese managerial practices the authors may have slightly erred.
- Cobalt, chromium, manganese, molybdenum and nickel are sometimes added as correctives for iron; their addition also improves strength at high temperature.
- What do you think would be the fundamental consequences of such a crisis, and what, in your opinion, are the correctives that should be adopted?
- Rather, it is an attempt to posit some correctives to the discourse.
- It is too early to tell if reforms such as post-tenure reviews will serve as useful correctives.
- What I think is that we are dealing with a sick patient, one apt to slide back into the same old destructive habits without some firm and concrete correctives in place.
- All of the correctives that I have presented here have been discussed before, and all of them are in the pieces cited by the critics of evolutionary psychology.
- His emphasis on material austerity directly challenges our modern addiction to comfort, one of the Celtic tradition's most important correctives to our present mindset.
- The victim is offered restitution tentatively, with little confidence that it will be accepted - and finally with little confidence that correctives are possible.
- My goal, therefore, is to read these two theorists as potential correctives to one another.
- These correctives guard against excessive romanticisation of the ancient Olympics, thereby setting an impossible ethical hurdle against which the modern Games will always fail.
- Other twentieth-century writers and folklorists provided correctives to these distorted images, however.
Synonyms
remedy, curative, medicine, medication, medicament, restorative, corrective, antidote, antiserum

Derivatives

correctively

adverb

Late in his long career he set up a training program for those who sought to learn how to intervene correctively in the character defense games that children play with parents and teachers, and that spouses play with each other.
Example sentencesExamples
- Whenever those image data vary, the computer unit correctively computes absolute positions of the installed CCD cameras.
- ‘Your information is lacking,’ he responded correctively.
- Although, the autonomous status of regionalism became fully effected after the Amalgamation Pact of 1963 and was correctively applied into the system.
- ‘I believe there is a place for it only if it's applied correctively to help influence good behaviour,’ he said.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French correctif, -ive or late Latin correctivus, from Latin correct- 'brought into order' from the verb corrigere (see correct).

Definition of corrective in US English:

corrective

adjectivekəˈrektivkəˈrɛktɪv

Designed to correct or counteract something harmful or undesirable.
management was informed so that corrective action could be taken
Example sentencesExamples
- Why wasn't I hurrying to a phone to call and get corrective instructions to the appropriate building?
- It is only when it is present in large numbers that there is a need to take corrective action.
- Protective goggles are necessary in an industrial environment, and may be corrective or non-corrective.
- This form of production is unique to Ireland and these farmers are facing a very uncertain future unless corrective action is taken.
- If a plan of corrective action is needed, the instructions and time frame are explained.
- In England he applied his theories to dance education and also to designing corrective exercises for factory workers.
- Wouldn't it be more irresponsible of them to not take corrective action?
- Project Managers make extra efforts in codifying the mistakes made and corrective steps taken before any project is closed out.
- About 100,000 people who are tired of wearing glasses or contact lenses undergo corrective laser eye surgery in the UK every year.
- By spending time on preventive maintenance now, you can save time on corrective maintenance in the future.
- Then representatives visit the site and make recommendations on corrective measures to put things right.
- We have implemented corrective action for all those possible causes.
- He said that had ‘exacerbated the losses by delaying and distracting the board from swift and corrective action’.
- They still need to take corrective action regarding the inaccurate navigation charts.
- It can then pass on operator instructions and corrective actions to the ‘guilty’ machine.
- Poorly designed policies can delay corrective steps and create monopoly.
- For more serious violations covered by the penal code, housemates could be sent to corrective labour colonies or camps.
- Thirdly, our work hints at corrective techniques that might be used to counteract prognostic error.
- Everyone knows baby boomers will strain future budgets, yet there's no clamor for corrective policies.
- In other words, military service would equal corrective discipline.
Synonyms
remedial, therapeutic, restorative, curative, reparatory, reparative, rehabilitative, ameliorative
correctional, punitive, penal, disciplinary, disciplinarian, castigatory, reformatory

nounkəˈrektivkəˈrɛktɪv

A thing intended to correct or counteract something else.
the move might be a corrective to some inefficient practices within hospitals
Example sentencesExamples
- The necessary correctives, after all, would have to be brutal.
- Even if the government finds out ways to prevent litigants taking upper hand in the days to come, it will be too late to take correctives in the short run.
- All of the correctives that I have presented here have been discussed before, and all of them are in the pieces cited by the critics of evolutionary psychology.
- Cobalt, chromium, manganese, molybdenum and nickel are sometimes added as correctives for iron; their addition also improves strength at high temperature.
- My goal, therefore, is to read these two theorists as potential correctives to one another.
- All these are unheralded natural correctives taken on by our society, which doesn't allow itself to be easily suborned from above.
- Other twentieth-century writers and folklorists provided correctives to these distorted images, however.
- It is too early to tell if reforms such as post-tenure reviews will serve as useful correctives.
- What do you think would be the fundamental consequences of such a crisis, and what, in your opinion, are the correctives that should be adopted?
- Finally, it would appear to me that in the process of introducing correctives to the earlier literature on Japanese managerial practices the authors may have slightly erred.
- In doing so, he offers important correctives to the seminal work on the subject undertaken by Dieter Langewiesche, and a bold new statement of the role played by migration in 19th century society.
- These correctives guard against excessive romanticisation of the ancient Olympics, thereby setting an impossible ethical hurdle against which the modern Games will always fail.
- This significant issue - the unauthorized disclosure of classified intelligence - has been extraordinarily resistant to correctives.
- His emphasis on material austerity directly challenges our modern addiction to comfort, one of the Celtic tradition's most important correctives to our present mindset.
- Rather, it is an attempt to posit some correctives to the discourse.
- He no longer sees computers as aids but as correctives, ways of ‘fixing’ past movies.
- While his specific correctives continue to be ignored or treated as quaint or whimsical, the book has appeal for the modern reader.
- The victim is offered restitution tentatively, with little confidence that it will be accepted - and finally with little confidence that correctives are possible.
- What I think is that we are dealing with a sick patient, one apt to slide back into the same old destructive habits without some firm and concrete correctives in place.
- While this survey cannot empirically offer definitive conclusions for the cultural operation of the talk show genre at large, a number of significant patterns may provide correctives for the bulk of literature on this genre.
Synonyms
remedy, curative, medicine, medication, medicament, restorative, corrective, antidote, antiserum

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French correctif, -ive or late Latin correctivus, from Latin correct- ‘brought into order’ from the verb corrigere (see correct).

单词	corrective
释义	Definition of corrective in English: corrective adjective kəˈrɛktɪvkəˈrɛktɪv Designed to correct or counteract something harmful or undesirable. management were informed so that corrective action could be taken Example sentencesExamples Poorly designed policies can delay corrective steps and create monopoly. Project Managers make extra efforts in codifying the mistakes made and corrective steps taken before any project is closed out. We have implemented corrective action for all those possible causes. He said that had ‘exacerbated the losses by delaying and distracting the board from swift and corrective action’. By spending time on preventive maintenance now, you can save time on corrective maintenance in the future. Wouldn't it be more irresponsible of them to not take corrective action? They still need to take corrective action regarding the inaccurate navigation charts. Then representatives visit the site and make recommendations on corrective measures to put things right. In England he applied his theories to dance education and also to designing corrective exercises for factory workers. This form of production is unique to Ireland and these farmers are facing a very uncertain future unless corrective action is taken. It is only when it is present in large numbers that there is a need to take corrective action. It can then pass on operator instructions and corrective actions to the ‘guilty’ machine. In other words, military service would equal corrective discipline. Everyone knows baby boomers will strain future budgets, yet there's no clamor for corrective policies. If a plan of corrective action is needed, the instructions and time frame are explained. Protective goggles are necessary in an industrial environment, and may be corrective or non-corrective. Thirdly, our work hints at corrective techniques that might be used to counteract prognostic error. Why wasn't I hurrying to a phone to call and get corrective instructions to the appropriate building? For more serious violations covered by the penal code, housemates could be sent to corrective labour colonies or camps. About 100,000 people who are tired of wearing glasses or contact lenses undergo corrective laser eye surgery in the UK every year. Synonyms remedial, therapeutic, restorative, curative, reparatory, reparative, rehabilitative, ameliorative correctional, punitive, penal, disciplinary, disciplinarian, castigatory, reformatory rare penitentiary, punitory, castigative noun kəˈrɛktɪvkəˈrɛktɪv A thing intended to correct or counteract something else. the move might be a corrective to some inefficient practices within hospitals Example sentencesExamples In doing so, he offers important correctives to the seminal work on the subject undertaken by Dieter Langewiesche, and a bold new statement of the role played by migration in 19th century society. The necessary correctives, after all, would have to be brutal. This significant issue - the unauthorized disclosure of classified intelligence - has been extraordinarily resistant to correctives. He no longer sees computers as aids but as correctives, ways of ‘fixing’ past movies. While his specific correctives continue to be ignored or treated as quaint or whimsical, the book has appeal for the modern reader. While this survey cannot empirically offer definitive conclusions for the cultural operation of the talk show genre at large, a number of significant patterns may provide correctives for the bulk of literature on this genre. All these are unheralded natural correctives taken on by our society, which doesn't allow itself to be easily suborned from above. Even if the government finds out ways to prevent litigants taking upper hand in the days to come, it will be too late to take correctives in the short run. Finally, it would appear to me that in the process of introducing correctives to the earlier literature on Japanese managerial practices the authors may have slightly erred. Cobalt, chromium, manganese, molybdenum and nickel are sometimes added as correctives for iron; their addition also improves strength at high temperature. What do you think would be the fundamental consequences of such a crisis, and what, in your opinion, are the correctives that should be adopted? Rather, it is an attempt to posit some correctives to the discourse. It is too early to tell if reforms such as post-tenure reviews will serve as useful correctives. What I think is that we are dealing with a sick patient, one apt to slide back into the same old destructive habits without some firm and concrete correctives in place. All of the correctives that I have presented here have been discussed before, and all of them are in the pieces cited by the critics of evolutionary psychology. His emphasis on material austerity directly challenges our modern addiction to comfort, one of the Celtic tradition's most important correctives to our present mindset. The victim is offered restitution tentatively, with little confidence that it will be accepted - and finally with little confidence that correctives are possible. My goal, therefore, is to read these two theorists as potential correctives to one another. These correctives guard against excessive romanticisation of the ancient Olympics, thereby setting an impossible ethical hurdle against which the modern Games will always fail. Other twentieth-century writers and folklorists provided correctives to these distorted images, however. Synonyms remedy, curative, medicine, medication, medicament, restorative, corrective, antidote, antiserum Derivatives correctively adverb Late in his long career he set up a training program for those who sought to learn how to intervene correctively in the character defense games that children play with parents and teachers, and that spouses play with each other. Example sentencesExamples Whenever those image data vary, the computer unit correctively computes absolute positions of the installed CCD cameras. ‘Your information is lacking,’ he responded correctively. Although, the autonomous status of regionalism became fully effected after the Amalgamation Pact of 1963 and was correctively applied into the system. ‘I believe there is a place for it only if it's applied correctively to help influence good behaviour,’ he said. Origin Mid 16th century: from French correctif, -ive or late Latin correctivus, from Latin correct- 'brought into order' from the verb corrigere (see correct). Definition of corrective in US English: corrective adjectivekəˈrektivkəˈrɛktɪv Designed to correct or counteract something harmful or undesirable. management was informed so that corrective action could be taken Example sentencesExamples Why wasn't I hurrying to a phone to call and get corrective instructions to the appropriate building? It is only when it is present in large numbers that there is a need to take corrective action. Protective goggles are necessary in an industrial environment, and may be corrective or non-corrective. This form of production is unique to Ireland and these farmers are facing a very uncertain future unless corrective action is taken. If a plan of corrective action is needed, the instructions and time frame are explained. In England he applied his theories to dance education and also to designing corrective exercises for factory workers. Wouldn't it be more irresponsible of them to not take corrective action? Project Managers make extra efforts in codifying the mistakes made and corrective steps taken before any project is closed out. About 100,000 people who are tired of wearing glasses or contact lenses undergo corrective laser eye surgery in the UK every year. By spending time on preventive maintenance now, you can save time on corrective maintenance in the future. Then representatives visit the site and make recommendations on corrective measures to put things right. We have implemented corrective action for all those possible causes. He said that had ‘exacerbated the losses by delaying and distracting the board from swift and corrective action’. They still need to take corrective action regarding the inaccurate navigation charts. It can then pass on operator instructions and corrective actions to the ‘guilty’ machine. Poorly designed policies can delay corrective steps and create monopoly. For more serious violations covered by the penal code, housemates could be sent to corrective labour colonies or camps. Thirdly, our work hints at corrective techniques that might be used to counteract prognostic error. Everyone knows baby boomers will strain future budgets, yet there's no clamor for corrective policies. In other words, military service would equal corrective discipline. Synonyms remedial, therapeutic, restorative, curative, reparatory, reparative, rehabilitative, ameliorative correctional, punitive, penal, disciplinary, disciplinarian, castigatory, reformatory nounkəˈrektivkəˈrɛktɪv A thing intended to correct or counteract something else. the move might be a corrective to some inefficient practices within hospitals Example sentencesExamples The necessary correctives, after all, would have to be brutal. Even if the government finds out ways to prevent litigants taking upper hand in the days to come, it will be too late to take correctives in the short run. All of the correctives that I have presented here have been discussed before, and all of them are in the pieces cited by the critics of evolutionary psychology. Cobalt, chromium, manganese, molybdenum and nickel are sometimes added as correctives for iron; their addition also improves strength at high temperature. My goal, therefore, is to read these two theorists as potential correctives to one another. All these are unheralded natural correctives taken on by our society, which doesn't allow itself to be easily suborned from above. Other twentieth-century writers and folklorists provided correctives to these distorted images, however. It is too early to tell if reforms such as post-tenure reviews will serve as useful correctives. What do you think would be the fundamental consequences of such a crisis, and what, in your opinion, are the correctives that should be adopted? Finally, it would appear to me that in the process of introducing correctives to the earlier literature on Japanese managerial practices the authors may have slightly erred. In doing so, he offers important correctives to the seminal work on the subject undertaken by Dieter Langewiesche, and a bold new statement of the role played by migration in 19th century society. These correctives guard against excessive romanticisation of the ancient Olympics, thereby setting an impossible ethical hurdle against which the modern Games will always fail. This significant issue - the unauthorized disclosure of classified intelligence - has been extraordinarily resistant to correctives. His emphasis on material austerity directly challenges our modern addiction to comfort, one of the Celtic tradition's most important correctives to our present mindset. Rather, it is an attempt to posit some correctives to the discourse. He no longer sees computers as aids but as correctives, ways of ‘fixing’ past movies. While his specific correctives continue to be ignored or treated as quaint or whimsical, the book has appeal for the modern reader. The victim is offered restitution tentatively, with little confidence that it will be accepted - and finally with little confidence that correctives are possible. What I think is that we are dealing with a sick patient, one apt to slide back into the same old destructive habits without some firm and concrete correctives in place. While this survey cannot empirically offer definitive conclusions for the cultural operation of the talk show genre at large, a number of significant patterns may provide correctives for the bulk of literature on this genre. Synonyms remedy, curative, medicine, medication, medicament, restorative, corrective, antidote, antiserum Origin Mid 16th century: from French correctif, -ive or late Latin correctivus, from Latin correct- ‘brought into order’ from the verb corrigere (see correct).
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