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correctors

correctors is the plural of corrector.

Meaning of corrector

Noun

corrector (plural correctors)

  1. One who corrects.
    • Wisdom is not the most severe corrector of folly.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) A proofreader.
    • Seeing therefore those who now possess the employment by all evident signs wish themselves well rid of it; and that no man of worth, none that is not a plain unthrift of his own hours, is ever likely to succeed them, except he mean to put himself to the salary of a press corrector; we may easily...1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) A director or governor.

Phrases with correctors

Questions about correctors

What is correctors the plural of?
Correctors is the plural of corrector.

Words near correctors in the dictionary

  1. correctnesses
  2. correctomundo
  3. corrector
  4. corrector magnet
  5. corrector magnets
  6. correctors
  7. correctorship
  8. correctorships
  9. correctory
  10. correctour
  11. correctours

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