correctional

/kəˈrekʃənl/ (bre, ipa) · /kəˈrekʃənl/ (ame, ipa) · /kə-ˈrek-shnəl -shə-nᵊl/ (ame, mw)

correctional — adjective

  • correctionalpositive
  • more correctionalcomparative
  • most correctionalsuperlative

1. used for prisons, prison staff, or official programs that punish offenders and h

1.形容詞C2
釋義

used for prisons, prison staff, or official programs that punish offenders and help change their behavior.

例句

Mira started work as a nurse at the state correctional facility.

collocation: correctional facility

Two correctional officers checked the visitors' bags at the front gate.

collocation: correctional officer

同義詞
  • penal

    stresses punishment and legal penalties more than treatment or rehabilitation

  • prison

    is the everyday modifier for places or staff connected with a prison, and sounds less official

  • rehabilitative

    focuses on helping offenders improve, not on the institution as a whole

文法句型

correctional facility

correctional officer

correctional institution

correctional program

correctional system

用法筆記

Usually placed before a noun, especially in institutional phrases such as correctional facility, correctional officer, and correctional program. It is mainly used in legal or government contexts, not for ordinary classroom or workplace correction.

常見錯誤

❌She works in a correction office.
✅She works in a correctional facility.
💡correctional is the adjective used for prisons and offender-treatment institutions; correction is not used that way before facility.