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cor·rec·tion (k

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1. The act or process of correcting.

2. Something offered or substituted for a mistake or fault: made corrections in the report.

a. Punishment intended to rehabilitate or improve.

b. corrections The treatment of offenders through a system of penal incarceration, rehabilitation, probation, and parole, or the administrative system by which these are effectuated.

4. An amount or quantity added or subtracted in order to correct.

5. A decline in stock-market activity or prices following a period of increases.

cor·rection·al adj.

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Noun	1.	corrections - 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" department of corrections department of local government, local department - a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government
	2.	corrections - the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole social control - control exerted (actively or passively) by group action

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corrections (redirected from Physical correction)

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