correctionnoun
uk/kəˈrek.ʃən/us/kəˈrek.ʃən/correction noun (CHANGE)
B1 [ C or U ] a change made to something in order to correct or improve it, or the action of making such a change:
She was disappointed to see her essay returned with a huge number of corrections in red ink.
[ C or U ] specialized also market correction finance & economics a change in prices in a financial market, especially when they go down after a period of being too high in relation to the real situation in a company, the economy, etc.:
It looks like last week's correction is over and prices are going to go higher.
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- I must make one important correction to what you said in your introduction - I'm Belgian, not German.
- After you have done the corrections, could you print out the document please?
- I've noticed several more corrections I'd like to make to the book, if it's not too late.
- I have one correction for the newsletter - our phone number has changed.
- Make sure you do all those spelling corrections carefully before you send off the letter.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- I tell a lie idiom
- lie
- mess
- patch
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- remediation
- revised
- smooth
- troubleshooting
- tune
- tune (sth) up
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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correction noun (PUNISHMENT)
[ U ] old-fashioned punishment of a type that is intended to improve bad behaviour
corrections [ plural ] US formal
the set of methods available for punishing and treating people who have committed crimes:
a corrections officer
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Punishing & punishments
- bar
- be brought/called to account idiom
- boot
- bring
- bum rap
- carrot
- chastise
- clobber
- crucify
- kick
- kick (some) ass idiom
- non-custodial
- parking ticket
- penal
- penalize
- string
- strip
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- wheel clamp
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