Usually means: Adjustment to rectify an error.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word correction:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. correction: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. correction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. correction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. correction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. correction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Correction, correction: Wordnik
  7. correction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. correction: Wiktionary
  9. correction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. correction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. correction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. correction: Dictionary.com
  13. correction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Correction (newspaper), Correction (novel), Correction (stock market), Correction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Correction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. correction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. correction: Rhymezone
  18. Correction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. correction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. correction: Free Dictionary
  21. correction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. correction: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. correction: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Correction: Moneyterms
  7. correction: Finance-Glossary.com
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Correction: Investopedia
  10. correction: Legal dictionary
  11. Correction: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  13. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. correction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. correction: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. correction: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CORRECTION: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See correctional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of correcting.
noun:  A substitution for an error or mistake.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
noun:  An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
noun:  A decline in a stock market price after a large rise.
noun:  (procedure word, military) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted

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