(~s)
1.
Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
Scientific institutions have been reluctant to take ~ action...
He has received extensive ~ surgery to his skull.
= remedial
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2.
If something is a ~ to a particular view or account, it gives a more accurate or fairer picture than there would have been without it. (FORMAL)
...a useful ~ to the mistaken view that all psychologists are behaviourists.
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