department of 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”

   Synonymscorrections

   Broaderlocal department

Questions about department of corrections

What does department of corrections mean?

department of corrections means "the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders".

What is another word for department of corrections?

Close synonyms include 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 department of corrections a common word?

department of corrections is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.