[ UK /kəɹˈɛktɪv/ ]
[ US /kɝˈɛktɪv/ ]
NOUN
  1. a device for treating injury or disease
ADJECTIVE
  1. tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
    corrective measures
    corrective lenses
  2. designed to promote discipline
    the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional
    disciplinal measures
    the mother was stern and disciplinary
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How To Use corrective In A Sentence

  • We need to take corrective action to halt this country's decline.
  • He would murmur a quiet corrective now and then, or insert an informative note, but never parade his learning.
  • Coronet Foods has been aggressively investigating and taking corrective action.
  • Maybe our series provides a corrective to some reality TV. Times, Sunday Times
  • The biography is a useful corrective to the myths that have grown up around this man.
  • For example, a short-sighted person might meet one test for disability, whilst with corrective lenses few would regard his myopia as a disability.
  • 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.
  • Minor corrective surgery can help and some understanding reassurance could help your wife too. The Sun
  • He has received extensive corrective surgery to his skull.
  • If you have used salt throughout the winter to de-ice sidewalks, take this corrective step to protect landscape plants.
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