1 [C] a change that makes sth more accurate than it was before:
I've made a few small corrections to your report. * The paper had to publish a correction to the story.
2 [U] the act or process of correcting sth:
There are some programming errors that need correction.
3 [U] (old-fashioned) punishment:
the correction of young offenders
exclamation (informal) used when you want to correct sth that you have just said:
I don't know. Correction-I do know, but I'm not going to tell you.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is correction a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, correction is tagged as noun.
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