- 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。
- a thing intended to correct or counteract something else矫正物; 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。
派生词
correctively
adverb词源
mid 16th cent.: from French correctif, -ive or late Latin correctivus, from Latin correct- 'brought into order' from the verb corrigere （see CORRECT）.