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corrective

a device for treating injury or disease tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition corrective measures corrective lenses (= disciplinary, disciplinal) 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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Is there a second operation you can give him, some corrective surgery?
I'll bet she wears corrective hats.
Yes, well, it's just a manner of speech from your post-corrective advisor to you that you watch out, little Alex.
Because next time it's not going to be the corrective school.
The Inner Constellation Corrective Authority.
Or a pair of corrective shoulders for terminal stoop.
Have you ever thought of having corrective surgery or prosthetics?
You can see it all now - a youth spent in corrective institutions, a string of illegitimate children, the wife will be all white shoes, no tights and blotchy legs, takes up petty crime to cover court orders for maintenance.
Law says you can't work for the city or state, within the vicinity of children if you've spent time in a mental hospital or corrective institution.
Oh, this individual is probably too far gone. to benefit from corrective behavior modification. of the kind offered in a setting for juveniles.
It's very hard to find a corrective shoe in a slip-on.
No corrective lenses tonight?
Corrective teeth surgery.
I need surgery! I need corrective oral surgery.
I regret that I am going to have to take a certain corrective action.
Maybe a corrective in the nostril.
This is merely a corrective hole.
They're corrective.
I know enough about weights and measures to know holes aren't allowed, no corrective holes.
And then tomorrow, when the job is done, we will take the next corrective measure.
Corrective discipline will be taken at once, trust me, sir.
Yes, well, it's just a manner of speech from your post-corrective advisor to you that you watch out, little alex.
These are the members of Corrective Group 638, and these, the members of Corrective Group 637 now sentenced to spending three days in Punishment Park.
Two surviving members of Corrective Group 637 have seized a West German sound technician as hostage.
And if my fingernails get any shorter my, my hands are going to need corrective surgery.
This is short sight which will mean the constant use of corrective glasses.
I am afraid, I'll have to use corrective measures.
But, that's enough already, so the Court is imposing a corrective measure of sending to a corrective institution.
Corrective measure will lasts at least 1 year, and maximum 5 years.
Aside from needing corrective lenses and being abducted by extraterrestrials involved in a governmental conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster.
Oral surgery. Corrective teeth surgery.
I need corrective oral surgery.
I'm getting corrective oral surgery tomorrow, for my teeth. I love you, Brad.

News and current affairs

Second, new capital ratios with multiple and decreasing capital thresholds, which trigger increasingly intrusive corrective action, should serve as the basis for a new system of mandated supervisory action.
We need to communicate our positions clearly to policymakers and reinforce incentives for countries to take appropriate corrective actions.
British resistance to grand European plans is the democratic grit in an enterprise that could become authoritarian, despite having the best intentions, and should serve as a necessary corrective to the utopianism of the technocrats.
By helping to make adverse economic or policy developments more apparent, greater transparency is also likely to lead to earlier incentives for governments to take corrective action.
So, in order to keep residual losses small, supervisors must be obliged to undertake early corrective action when a bank's capital weakens, which is how the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation operates.
Socialism, too, was a brave and necessary corrective to the social inequalities that emerged from laissez-faire capitalism.
Second, religious values that emphasize social solidarity are an important corrective to the tendency of markets to polarize society by rewarding success.
This is why we need a more effective crisis-prevention and crisis-resolution framework for the eurozone, one that strengthens the Pact's preventive and corrective provisions.
The uniting factor was that each had adopted unsustainable policies that required corrective action.
So leaders' ability to take corrective action increases only with time, as some of the costs of inaction are experienced.
Populism can be a necessary corrective when political parties grow sclerotic, mass media become too complacent (or too close to power), and bureaucracies are unresponsive to popular needs.
Before we provide financial assistance, whether bilaterally or through the international financial institutions (IFIs), we must determine the underlying cause of economic vulnerability and ensure necessary corrective action.

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