remediation
remediation — noun
1. the work of making something good again after it has been damaged, polluted, or
the work of making something good again after it has been damaged, polluted, or made wrong — for example, cleaning up a factory site that spilled chemicals, correcting mistakes in a company's records, or helping a student catch up in reading and maths
The government spent over two million dollars on the remediation of the polluted river.
collocation: remediation of [environmental damage]
Yan enrolled in a summer remediation program to improve her reading skills before college.
collocation: remediation program
Christopher's team handled the remediation of all security weaknesses found in the database.
The factory owners paid for the remediation of the contaminated soil near their old site.
After the audit, Esme started a remediation plan to fix errors in the customer records.
- remedy
shorter and more general; can be a noun for any cure or solution, while remediation emphasises the whole process of applying a fix
- correction
simpler word focusing on removing errors; does not carry the environmental or large-scale project sense
- cleanup
informal and limited to physical or environmental messes; not used for academic or digital problems
- restoration
emphasises bringing something back to its original or ideal state; common in conservation and art contexts
- contamination
the act of making something dirty or harmful, which is what remediation tries to reverse
- neglect
failing to care for something, leading to the kind of damage that later requires remediation
- damage
the harm caused; remediation is the process of undoing damage
文法句型
remediation of [something]
[adjective] remediation
undergo/require remediation
用法筆記
Uncountable noun, used mainly in formal or technical contexts including environmental science, education, cybersecurity, and corporate compliance. Often followed by 'of' plus the thing being fixed, or used as a modifier before another noun (remediation plan, remediation work).