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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remedial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ His control in these cases is such that he alone decides whether or not to sample, whether or not to demand remedial action.
▪ Pressure is already developing, especially in the unions, for remedial action.
▪ Under such circumstances, Dalzell believed Kenneff had an unambiguous ethical obligation to take remedial action with the court that convicted Lambert.
▪ The latest system lists over 68000 chemical substances, their hazards and remedial actions.
▪ Brenda pointed this out to Albert, who took no remedial action.
▪ If remedial action is not forthcoming we would cease trading with them.
▪ Later, the results are carefully compared with the intentions in order to identify remedial action or set new targets.
▪ Appropriate remedial action has been taken to secure higher premium levels on current business.
class
▪ The Association has branches throughout the country that provide information and hold remedial classes.
▪ Most of these students take remedial classes in all three fields.
▪ Middle-class children thus tend to fill the honors and advanced-placement classes while poor children take the general and remedial classes.
course
▪ Some run efficient remedial courses, which could surely be used for youngsters who had taken a broader sixth-form course.
▪ These students traverse course after remedial course, becoming increasingly turned off to writing, increasingly convinced that they are hopelessly inadequate.
▪ Their placement in a remedial course confirmed their suspicions.
▪ About one quarter of entering college students now take at least one remedial course.
▪ In his first year at City College he had taken nothing but remedial courses and the notoriously undemanding introductory black studies course.
education
▪ Although traditional remedial education is undergoing radical reform, major problems remain.
measure
▪ They are not liable in negligence for the cost of remedial measures caused by a defect in the building's construction.
▪ Its profits plunged 60 percent to £31 million, though Sir Robert said remedial measures were now in place.
▪ These sites for concern are investigated and where cost-effective remedial measures are identified they are included in the works programme.
▪ Comparisons with targets and assumptions then allow remedial measures to be identified if necessary.
▪ But members of the review team claimed that the remedial measures ignored or misrepresented their main findings.
▪ Barlow succeeded in establishing the case for radical, remedial measures to deal with the problems of London and the big cities.
▪ For this reason, beyond a certain stage, any remedial measure to counteract gravity becomes self-defeating.
teacher
▪ People were appointed to co-ordinate the work of remedial teachers in schools.
work
▪ Despite remedial work, which Howard acknowledged on a second visit in 1786, the prison was clearly still inadequate.
▪ During these periods I was either to observe or else to go out and do remedial work with other classes.
▪ Out of 72 cases only 20 resulted in the ministry obtaining compensation or remedial work at no cost to themselves.
▪ Can public school teachers do remedial work in religious schools?
▪ On the technical side, remedial work is in many cases already on the way.
▪ An even more important distinction is the fact that the remedial work is expressive rather than productive.
▪ It is ideal for planning remedial work and helps identify which grammatical areas should be worked on.
▪ This type of program is useful for remedial work, revision and reinforcement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ During these periods I was either to observe or else to go out and do remedial work with other classes.
▪ His control in these cases is such that he alone decides whether or not to sample, whether or not to demand remedial action.
▪ Its profits plunged 60 percent to £31 million, though Sir Robert said remedial measures were now in place.
▪ Not surprisingly, Dale had to entoil in a remedial mathematics course when he arrived on campus.
▪ She enrolled at a Colorado community college and discovered how inadequate her education had been when she tested at the remedial level.
▪ They are not liable in negligence for the cost of remedial measures caused by a defect in the building's construction.
▪ We must complete full investigations prior to commencing remedial repairs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remedial

Remedial \Re*me"di*al\ (-al), a. [L. remedialis.] Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.

Statutes are declaratory or remedial.
--Blackstone.

It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative.
--I. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
remedial

1650s, "curing, relieving, affording a remedy," from Late Latin remedialis "healing, curing," from Latin remedium (see remedy (n.)). Educational sense of "concerned with improving skills" is first recorded 1924.

Wiktionary
remedial

a. 1 curative; providing a remedy 2 intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject

WordNet
remedial

  1. adj. tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education"

  2. tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" [syn: curative, healing(p), alterative, sanative, therapeutic]

Usage examples of "remedial".

Such aliment would have been not only highly nutritious, but it would also have acted as an efficient remedial agent for the removal of the scorbutic condition.

In the following lines examples of idiosyncrasy to the most common remedial substances will be cited, taking the drugs up alphabetically.

Great pains are taken to obtain the materials at the right season of the year, properly cured so that none of their remedial qualities may be impaired.

In the third book other remedial measures, dietetic, manipulative, and even operative, are suggested.

Court to dismiss its fears of upsetting the balance in the distribution of powers under the Federal System and to enlarge its own supervisory powers over state legislation were the appeals more and more addressed to it for adequate protection of property rights against the remedial social legislation which the States were increasingly enacting in the wake of industrial expansion.

In consideration, therefore, of the foregoing facts, we deem it most profitable for our readers that Part Fourth of this volume should be arranged in the following manner: The milder forms of uncomplicated, acute diseases, which may be readily and unmistakably recognized, and successfully managed without professional aid, will receive that attention which is necessary to give the reader a correct idea of them, and their proper remedial treatment.

ERECTED 1974, and my roommate left notes accusing me of stealing his puka shell necklace or remedial English book.

North Carolina where the low brick buildings were marked with plaques reading ERECTED 1974, and my roommate left notes accusing me of stealing his puka shell necklace or remedial English book.

He tapped into his earth-sense, interlinked with its tapestry, then aligned his remedial ciphers overtop of the flaw in the ward ring.

They themselves say that the duration of life, too, has increased, and is still on the increase, since their discovery of the invigorating and medicinal properties of vril, applied for remedial purposes.

After a thorough cleansing of the vaginal surfaces of mucus, by means of the warm or hot water, it is sometimes advisable to inject remedial fluids.

It has not been our purpose to literally explain, in detail, the methods of applying vibratory motion in the treatment of paralysis for popular experiment, since to be successful one should become an expert, not only in this mechanical treatment, but also in the diagnosis of the various forms of paralysis, as well as familiar with their causes, pathology, and remedial requirements.

Treatment intended to be remedial is therefore very often misdirected and fails to afford relief, positive injury frequently resulting instead.

As this remedial appliance will be frequently recommended in the pages following, its mode of application is here described.

I suggest that other guards at Sargasso Dump be given a chance for similar remedial programs.