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单词 corrective
释义

corrective

/kəˈrɛktɪv /
adjective
Designed to correct or counteract something harmful or undesirable: management were informed so that corrective action could be taken...
  • Poorly designed policies can delay corrective steps and create monopoly.
  • Why wasn't I hurrying to a phone to call and get corrective instructions to the appropriate building?
  • It can then pass on operator instructions and corrective actions to the ‘guilty’ machine.

Synonyms

remedial, therapeutic, restorative, curative, reparatory, reparative, rehabilitative, ameliorative
correctional, punitive, penal, disciplinary, disciplinarian, castigatory, reformatory
rare penitentiary, punitory, castigative
noun
A thing intended to correct or counteract something else: the move might be a corrective to some inefficient practices within hospitals...
  • While his specific correctives continue to be ignored or treated as quaint or whimsical, the book has appeal for the modern reader.
  • 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.
  • The necessary correctives, after all, would have to be brutal.

Derivatives

correctively

adverb ...
  • ‘Your information is lacking,’ he responded correctively.
  • ‘I believe there is a place for it only if it's applied correctively to help influence good behaviour,’ he said.
  • Although, the autonomous status of regionalism became fully effected after the Amalgamation Pact of 1963 and was correctively applied into the system.

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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