Something offered or substituted for a mistake or fault: made corrections in the report.
Punishment intended to rehabilitate or improve.
corrections The treatment of offenders through a system of penal incarceration, rehabilitation, probation, and parole, or the administrative system by which these are effectuated.
An amount or quantity added or subtracted in order to correct.
A decline in stock-market activity or prices following a period of increases.
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