Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to remedy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being remedied or cured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being remedied or cured.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
remedied .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being remedied or redressed
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Examples
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Henry Petroski wrote “the essence of engineering is to construe every limiting aspect of existence as a remediable malfunction”.
Comixology and the future of connected commerce | FactoryCity 2009
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Or as a US federal judge said in 2006, “The assessment of the death penalty, however well designed the system for doing so, remains a human endeavour with a consequent risk of error that may not be remediable.”
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The critics of privatization, avoiding both the conceptual error and the unconstructive consequences of deontological declarations, focus on particular and potentially remediable defects, thus inviting rather than foreclosing a response.
David Isenberg: Admiral Bob's Global Security: The Future of PSC? David Isenberg 2010
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The critics of privatization, avoiding both the conceptual error and the unconstructive consequences of deontological declarations, focus on particular and potentially remediable defects, thus inviting rather than foreclosing a response.
David Isenberg: Admiral Bob's Global Security: The Future of PSC? David Isenberg 2010
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The big question is which of these incapacities are contingent -- specific to particular conditions and institutional arrangements, and thus remediable -- and which are structural, inherent in any system of representative government.
What can we expect of democracy? Steven E. Levingston 2010
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Vision, hearing, memory, cognition, bone and muscle strength, skin tone, hair and of course sexual vigor will all be remediable in the near future.
Optimistic Prognoses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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They have prevented our people from being there at the precise moment they should have been there and that is not remediable and will affect our ability to do our jobs, Dante Caputo said.
Nicaragua's president Daniel Ortega expected to win third term 2011
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It was a medical emergency and I thought death was in the offing, my own death, and it turned out to be fine, easily remediable and short term and no problem.
The Glass Half Eaten Ellen Gamerman 2010
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Plaintiffs have alleged facts, which must be taken as true for purposes of a motion to dismiss, that any reasonable person would agree to be gross violations of the norms of international law, remediable under the Alien Tort Statute.
Andy Worthington: By One Vote, U.S. Court OKs Torture and "Extraordinary Rendition" 2010
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Plaintiffs have alleged facts, which must be taken as true for purposes of a motion to dismiss, that any reasonable person would agree to be gross violations of the norms of international law, remediable under the Alien Tort Statute.
Andy Worthington: By One Vote, U.S. Court OKs Torture and "Extraordinary Rendition" 2010
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