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intended to remedy (fix) — especially a deficiency in education or health

I'm struggling a bit, but hope to catch up with a remedial math course this summer.

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in

I'm hoping to catch up with a remedial math class this summer.

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in

...more than 600,000 of the freshmen who arrived at U.S. colleges this fall—remarkably, 29% of the total—are taking at least one remedial reading, writing or math class.
John Cloud -- Time, 2002 -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003430,00.html (retrieved 01/20/10)

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in

remedial surgery
She was a horrible math student in fifth grade. She cried every Saturday when we did remedial stuff.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in education

Because of my weak spelling I was enrolled in an extra, remedial course, which was marginally insulting,
John Irving -- A Prayer for Owen Meany

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in education

I once asked Mrs. Brown if the California boys could come into the schoolhouse and work with some of the kids on remedial reading.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in

I heard through the grapevine that this professor thought Yale should accept only students from places like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton: "It's not our job to do remedial education, and too many of these other kids need it."
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in education

The remedial reading program was going to lose its funding, and the principal would be either furious or just plain disgusted.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

remedial = to fix deficiency in

She pulled out a remedial English test, and gave it to him.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in

Eleanor would get put in remedial gym first.
Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency

They were all leaving the next day for seven weeks on the Seton Hall campus to participate in a remediation and preparation program required for all students accepted into the Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Plus program.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street

remediation = the act of fixing a deficiency in education

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation. Remediation is often used in connection with education or the environment.)

I couldn't help thinking about how he'd met Kotku in what was essentially Remedial Civics, the section for students who weren't smart enough (even in our extremely non-demanding school) to pass without extra help.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch

remedial = intended to fix a deficiency in education

Mom's job was teaching remedial reading in an elementary school in Davy, a coal-mining camp twelve miles north of Welch.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

remedial = to fix deficiency in

Mitzvah-gathering, mensch remedial training.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
The class was Remedial Speech, and I accepted my own presence there if only because of the very trouble I had pronouncing it.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Some might say remedial infantry.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
I consume this, noting every intersection and side street, but it's remedial stuff.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
Of course, with intensive remedial potions and charms and a bit of luck, we can produce some improvement.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
In the next place, the abuses would often have completed their mischievous effects before the remedial provision would be applied.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers

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