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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming better
alive
back on your feetidiom
bloom
blossom
blossom into something
bounce
by/in leaps and boundsidiom
come aliveidiom
heal
make a man (out) of someoneidiom
marginal
mend
mend your waysidiom
move on to bigger/better thingsidiom
rally
shape up
shape up or ship out!idiom
sharpen (something) up
sharpen up your actidiom
step

corrective | American Dictionary

corrective
adjective
 fmlus/kəˈrek·tɪv/
intended to improve something or make it right:
Corrective measures must be taken at once.

corrective | Business English

corrective
noun[ C ]
uk /kəˈrektɪv/us
something that improves something else:
corrective to sthThis European report on the internet provides a corrective to the usual US-based views.
corrective
adjective
uk /kəˈrektɪv/us
intended to improve something:
corrective measures/actionWhen a problem arises, managers must take swift corrective action to limit the damage it might cause.

Examples of corrective

corrective
He does, however, note the existence of 'our ordinary intuitions about corrective justice' (p. 21).
Some old regulations exist for disposable devices, clinical implants, and corrective and therapeutic medical instruments.
Thus, strict liability violates the correlativity of duty and right at the heart of corrective justice.
As with frequency of negative input, the rates at which children pick up on corrective information in this way varies considerably.
The current study is valuable in this respect for confirming that, for all 13 structures investigated, corrective input is available to the child.
To ensure that the children understood the required task, they were given corrective feedback about their performance on the practice items.
Such an assertion calls for a corrective effort, one that will most reasonably take place within the old paradigm, which has no matching rival.
Corrective justice is defined as "numerical" equality of differences.
Indeed, if decreases in grammaticality correlated with increases in error-contingent models, one might call into question its function as a form of corrective input.
While these correctives have been generally endorsed, some reservations have been expressed.
One corrective technique is to make students re-examine and revise their exchanges with guided instruction.
The frequency of corrective repetitions is questionable and may undermine usefulness of the feedback.
Corrective actions have been undertaken to optimise the overall process.
Nevertheless, the corrective effects of these forces for reform have been uneven.
Only this makes it possible for farmers to take corrective action without additional strain on producers' economy and on the environment through inappropriate production methods.
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