MEANING
Intended to improve or remedy a problem; as a noun, something serving that purpose.
Use it for
counterbalancing a misleading emphasis; remedying a methodological weakness; adding an account that corrects a one-sided interpretationDescribes an intended remedy or counterbalance without implying a complete refutation. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation, Argumentation, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- corrective action
- corrective measure
- a corrective to the account
On the page
The workers’ letters provide a corrective to an account based entirely on managerial records.
The evaluation recommends corrective action when the sampling procedure excludes remote communities.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- corrective
Usage notes
Adjective: corrective action. Count noun: a corrective, correctives; a corrective to an imbalance or account. No routine synthetic comparison. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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