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2 ADJ [v-link ADJ ] If someone is correct , what they have said or thought is true. [FORMAL ] □  You are absolutely correct. The leaves are from a bay tree. □  If Casey is correct, the total cost of the cleanup would come to $110 billion.

3 ADJ [ADJ n] The correct thing or method is the thing or method that is required or is most suitable in a particular situation. □  The use of the correct materials was crucial. □  …the correct way to produce a crop of tomato plants. ●  cor|rect|ly ADV [ADV with v] □  If correctly executed, this shot will get the ball close to the hole.

4 ADJ If you say that someone is correct in doing something, you approve of their action. □ [+ in ] You are perfectly correct in trying to steer your mother towards increased independence. □  I think the president was correct to reject the offer. ●  cor|rect|ly ADV □  When an accident happens, quite correctly questions are asked.

5 VERB If you correct a problem, mistake, or fault, you do something which puts it right. □ [V n] He has criticised the government for inefficiency and delays in correcting past mistakes. ●  cor|rec|tion /kəre kʃ ^ə n/ (corrections ) N‑VAR □ [+ of ] …legislation to require the correction of factual errors. □  We will then make the necessary corrections.

6 VERB If you correct someone, you say something which you think is more accurate or appropriate than what they have just said. □ [V n with quote] 'Actually, that isn't what happened,' George corrects me. □ [V n] I must correct him on a minor point. [Also V with quote]

7 VERB When someone corrects a piece of writing, they look at it and mark the mistakes in it. □ [V n] He focused on preparing his classes and correcting his students' work.

8 ADJ If a person or their behaviour is correct , their behaviour is in accordance with social or other rules. □  I think English men are very polite and very correct. ●  cor|rect|ly ADV [ADV with v] □  She behaved correctly but not affectionately towards her father. ●  cor|rect|ness N‑UNCOUNT □  …his stiff-legged gait and formal correctness.

cor|rec|tion /kəre kʃ ^ə n/ (corrections )

1 N‑COUNT [usu pl] Corrections are marks or comments made on a piece of work, especially school work, which indicate where there are mistakes and what are the right answers.

2 N‑UNCOUNT [oft N n] Correction is the punishment of criminals. [mainly AM ] □  …jails and other parts of the correction system.

3 → see also correct

cor|rec|tion|al /kəre kʃənəl/ ADJ [ADJ n] Correctional means related to prisons. [mainly AM ] □  He is currently being held in a metropolitan correctional center.

cor|rec|tive /kəre kt I v/ (correctives )

1 ADJ [usu ADJ n] Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong. □  Scientific institutions have been reluctant to take corrective action. □  He has received extensive corrective surgery to his skull.

2 N‑COUNT If something is a corrective to a particular view or account, it gives a more accurate or fairer picture than there would have been without it. [FORMAL ] □ [+ to ] …a useful corrective to the mistaken view that all psychologists are behaviourists.

cor|re|late /kɒ rəle I t, [AM ] kɔː r-/ (correlates , correlating , correlated )