cor·rec·tion (k -r k shn)n. 1. The act or process of correcting. 2. Something offered or substituted for a mistake or fault: made corrections in the report. 3. 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·rec tion·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 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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