designed to correct or counteract something harmful or undesirable 改正的;修正的 management were informed so that corrective action could be taken. 管理人员已获通知,因而可以采取纠偏行动。
noun
a thing intended to correct or counteract something else 校正物;纠正物 the move might be a corrective to some inefficient practices within hospitals. 此措施也许可改变医院内部一些低效率的做法。
派生 correctively adverb 语源
mid 16th cent.: from French correctif, -ive or late Latin correctivus, from Latin correct- 'brought into order' from the verb corrigere (see correct)