Corrections
[kə'rɛkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole.
(noun.) the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders; 'for a career in corrections turn to the web site of the New Jersey Department of Corrections'.
Edited by Dorothy--From WordNet
Examples
- Edison had a few minor corrections to make, probably not more than a dozen all told. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- HE COPIED OUT PAINSTAKINGLY THE ENTIRE PAPER IN LONG HAND, embodying the corrections as he went along, and presented the result of his work the following morning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I return the papers with some corrections. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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