corrections

[ US /kɝˈɛkʃənz/ ]
[ UK /kəɹˈɛkʃənz/ ]

NOUN

the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
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

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All corrections that affect the whole image, such as color, saturation, level and contrast, should be made first, before starting to edit and retouch more in detail.
And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories, rather than working with their uncertainties.
Sometimes the corrections are amusing exercises in pedantry.
Churches should review their classifications and make all necessary corrections now. Christianity Today
The book was reissued about 40 years ago with few scholarly corrections. Times, Sunday Times
He will not be able to change his residential address or leave the magisterial district without approval from the head of community corrections.
Although most of the text is typeset, there are many passages that are hand-written, and there are also proof-reading corrections hand-printed within the textual passages.
market runups are followed by corrections
Corrections made to printed original. page 300, "The duad represented the line" - original reads 'decad', making no sense in view of what follows. Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
The idea that there's some set of soft options where we can make the fiscal corrections in a painless way is not a runner. Times, Sunday Times

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