CORRECTIVE


Meaning of CORRECTIVE in English

(~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

ADJ: usu ADJ n

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.

N-COUNT: oft N to n

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