remediateformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Correcting and mending
calibration
clean (someone/something) up
correction
fiddle (around) with something
fine-tune
mess
reconstruct
reconstruction
recover
rectifiable
rectification
refine
remedy
revise
scratch
set/put the record straightidiom
smooth something away
smoothen
sort
sort something out

Examples of remedying

remedying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Bilingual education, "diversity" programs, and affirmative action policies aim to do more than assure individual opportunity by remedying specific discriminatory acts.
Detailed guidance in the book on further reading would go some way to remedying this.
We are grateful to these commentators for remedying this deficiency.
Four papers describe approaches to remedying this deficiency.
The mines sponsored good studies of the nutrition problem but balked at the costs involved in remedying it among their workers.
The 1 : 1 clay minerals play an important role as a base for pharmaceutical preparations aimed at remedying gastro-intestinal problems.
Determining what prioritarian prescriptions require in terms of remedying genetic disadvantage really depends on who we include in the category of the genetically disadvantaged.
When remedying health disadvantages is the goal, progress is measured in terms of positive changes in the health of those groups defined as disadvantaged.
With her usual vigour and determination she immediately set about remedying this.
Narrowing health gaps therefore represents a more ambitious goal than remedying health disadvantages.
The benefits from remedying environmental problems do not necessarily return to the farmer, they often return to the community at large, even across national boundaries.
Moreover, if equity is capable of remedying the law's inflexibility, then what is the problem?
At the same time, the lack of an alternative, resulting from the imposition of ideological safeguards on the official art world, offered them little hope of remedying the situation.
This places the understandings of health inequality along a continuum, according to the weight they give to remedying health disadvantages, narrowing health gaps and reducing health gradients.
The first idea, of remedying past ills, extends to a great deal of human life, in virtue of our ability to alter the effects of the past, to some extent.
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