diff --git a/src/plugins/select/linear/select_linear.c b/src/plugins/select/linear/select_linear.c
index c8db948042e08f829b3b54f4d00be83ec2e7e1fa..47a5b2526a60b8e7e4d05417df519c48c5b7909b 100644
--- a/src/plugins/select/linear/select_linear.c
+++ b/src/plugins/select/linear/select_linear.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ time_t last_node_update;
 struct switch_record *switch_record_table; 
 int switch_record_cnt;
 #ifdef HAVE_AIX
-/* On AIX dlopen's RTLD_LAZY flag does NOT work, so we must defune 
+/* On AIX dlopen's RTLD_LAZY flag does NOT work, so we must define 
  * actual functions here in order to load this plugin from anywhere
  *  other than slurmctld */
 void job_preempt_remove(uint32_t job_id)