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rectification

[rek-tuh-fi-key-shuhn] / ˌrɛk tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /










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Pollard told MPs: "It's pretty standard fare, right across our military platforms, for there to be safety notices issued and rectification work taking place."

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

Ethylene is produced industrially by the high-energy cracking and rectification of fossil feedstocks.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

"Foxconn's subsidiaries are obliged to actively cooperate with audits and investigations, and if there are indeed violations of laws and regulations, they should admit mistakes and accept penalties and step up rectification," Zhang said.

From Reuters • Oct. 22, 2023

Around the time Ant announced the change in control, Guo Shuqing, the Communist Party secretary at the People’s Bank of China, said the so-called rectification campaign into the biggest technology companies was “basically complete.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

On occasion he had even been entrusted with the rectification of the Times leading articles, which were written entirely in Newspeak.

From "1984" by George Orwell