Usually means: Pertaining to punishment and rehabilitation.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. correctional: Merriam-Webster
  2. correctional: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. correctional: Collins English Dictionary
  4. correctional: Vocabulary.com
  5. Correctional, correctional: Wordnik
  6. correctional: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. correctional: Wiktionary
  8. correctional: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Correctional, correctional: Dictionary.com
  10. Correctional: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Correctional: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. correctional: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. correctional: Rhymezone
  14. Correctional: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. correctional: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. correctional: FreeDictionary.org
  17. correctional: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. correctional: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. correctional: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. correctional: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. correctional: Legal dictionary
  3. correctional: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. correctional: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. correctional: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. correctional: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or intended for correction.
▸ adjective:  (chiefly US, Canada) Of or pertaining to the imprisonment or rehabilitation of convicted criminals.

Similar:
punitive, punitory, corrective, correctory, penocorrectional, rectificational, reformatory, reparative, diorthotic, hypercorrective, more...

Types:
detention, jail, prison, rehabilitation, more...

Phrases:
correctional institutions, correctional facilities, correctional institution, correctional facility, correctional officers, more...

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    orange,     gray,     khaki,     navy blue,     olive green, more...



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Similar:
punitive, punitory, corrective, correctory, penocorrectional, rectificational, reformatory, reparative, diorthotic, hypercorrective, more...

Types:
detention, jail, prison, rehabilitation, more...

Phrases:
correctional institutions, correctional facilities, correctional institution, correctional facility, correctional officers, correctional officer, correctional institute, correctional rehabilitation, more...

Colors:
    orange,     gray,     khaki,     navy blue,     olive green, more...



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