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1. 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
    
2. The social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole

1. The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
   - rectification
    
2. A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
   - fudge factor
    
3. Something substituted for an error
    
4. A rebuke for making a mistake
   - chastening, chastisement
    
5. A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
   "market runups are invariably followed by a correction"
    
6. The act of disciplining
   - discipline
    
7. Treatment of a specific defect
   "the correction of his vision with eye glasses"

Type of: department of local government, dip, drop, editing, fall, free fall, improvement, indefinite quantity, local department, penalisation [Brit], penalization, penalty, punishment, rebuke, redaction, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval, sanction, social control, therapy, treatment

Encyclopedia: Corrections