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Correctional - 3 dictionary results

cor⋅rec⋅tion⋅al

[kuh-rek-shuh-nl]
–adjective
of or pertaining to correction, esp. to penal correction.

Origin:
1830–40; correction + -al 1
cor·rec·tion   (kə-rěk'shən)   
n.  
  1. The act or process of correcting.
  2. Something offered or substituted for a mistake or fault: made corrections in the report.
    1. Punishment intended to rehabilitate or improve.
    2. corrections The treatment of offenders through a system of penal incarceration, rehabilitation, probation, and parole, or the administrative system by which these are effectuated.
  3. An amount or quantity added or subtracted in order to correct.
  4. A decline in stock-market activity or prices following a period of increases.
cor·rec'tion·al adj.

Correctional

Cor*rec"tion*al\ (k?r-r?k"sh?n-a]/>l), a. [Cf. F. correctionnel.] Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.
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