corrections

1. 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”

   Synonymsdepartment of corrections

   Broaderlocal department
2. 2.

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

   Broadersocial control

Other forms of corrections

plural

correctionses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about corrections

What does corrections mean?

corrections means "the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in corrections?

corrections has 3 syllables: cor-rec-tions. The stress falls on "rec". In IPA it is /kɚˈɛkʃənz/.

What is another word for corrections?

Close synonyms include department of corrections. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corrections a common word?

corrections is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.