adjective

• 1Giving or intended as a remedy or cure.

  ‘remedial surgery’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Although the evidence is limited, these patients are often treated with warfarin to prevent progression, especially if remedial surgery is not possible.’
  • ‘Not all patients would benefit from remedial massage, but once they are re-aligned, it is the icing on the cake to go in deep and work on muscles that may have been held in spasm for many years.’
  • ‘Geriatricians are concerned about standards of assessment and continuing medical, nursing, and remedial therapy care in nursing homes.’
  • ‘Contrary to our learned friend's submissions, we resist the proposition that this is remedial or beneficial legislation.’
  • ‘This is not because of any individual error but because of a worrying pattern of apparent inability to learn from previous mistakes and benefit from remedial input.’
  • ‘Prevention of disease certainly seems cheaper than having to give remedial therapy afterward.’
  • ‘Sandel points out that justice is remedial - it corrects or repudiates injustice.’
  • ‘Therapeutic and remedial massage helped in the short term with or without essential oils, but I felt there was more needed.’
  • ‘They have diligently pursued answers to the causes of the problems and the correct remedial approach.’
  • ‘So blaming itself is a very satisfying emotion, but there is no remedial benefit from it.’
  • ‘We need some enlightened planning to redesign and rebuild all our depressed urban areas in a way that may prove more cost beneficial than all the other remedial measures put together.’
  • ‘The reason why he wanted to conduct sound tests at the other properties was to confirm that what he had been told was correct, and also to help determine the remedial works.’
  • ‘Today's liberalism holds that remedial measures are necessary to compensate for past injustices.’
  • ‘He does however feel that remedial work should be done now.’
  • ‘If not, they were told what remedial action to take, if any.’
  • ‘As a result the analysis cannot be used as the basis for remedial measures.’
  • ‘And efforts to frustrate remedial measures that should be implemented must not be countenanced.’
  • ‘Carrying out remedial repairs and updating of central heating systems are among the group s priorities.’
  • ‘I said yesterday that legislation should be remedial in nature.’
  • ‘He believes that he has been involved in perhaps a couple of situations where remedial ties had to be implemented.’

  Synonyms

  healing, curative, curing, remedial, medicinal, restorative, health-giving, tonic, sanative, reparative, corrective, ameliorative, beneficial, good, salubrious, salutary

  1. 1.1Provided or intended for school students who have not achieved the level of attainment necessary for them to be able to study with their contemporaries.
     ‘remedial education’
     More example sentences

     • ‘To many, adult education is nothing but literacy and remedial education aiming at teaching people how to read and write.’
     • ‘Instead, it is considered just a condition requiring remedial education.’
     • ‘Early identification and intervention is much easier than remedial education in late years.’
     • ‘The confusion generated by this usage, too, has to be tackled by remedial education.’
     • ‘Costa Rica's environmental court has helped with remedial education.’
     • ‘Many difficult children have learning difficulties that can be eliminated with remedial teaching allowing the children to flower.’
     • ‘Remedial education - also called developmental education - suffers from an image problem.’
     • ‘A school must have teachers qualified in remedial education to identify and give them help.’
     • ‘"Clearly, too many students need remedial courses," the report states.’
     • ‘Many freshmen have to take remedial English classes for which they receive no credit.’
     • ‘Remedial instructions will be provided when the child reaches Grade 3.’
     • ‘There is no substitute for direct remedial instruction in reading.’
     • ‘Fortunately you will be raising my taxes to help you offset the pinch of her remedial reading courses.’
     • ‘James told the teachers that if they accelerated their skills, there will be no need for remedial classes.’
     • ‘If the figures being thrown around this week are any indication, there are a lot of people in need of remedial math lessons.’
     • ‘Had there been enough money at Jack's school, he would have received remedial math help.’
     • ‘Consequently, the remedial help students need is not forthcoming.’