The temperature is controlled by a thermostat.
The government is trying to control spending.
- aggrandize
- assert your authority
- assume
- assumption
- authoritative
- get the better of someone idiom
- get your hooks into someone/something idiom
- govern
- guiding principle
- harness
- peremptorily
- peremptory
- play God idiom
- plenipotentiary
- police
- slow
- tame
- what someone says, goes idiom
- wrangle
- wrangler
Idiom
Phrasal verb
control
noun
uk
/kənˈtrəʊl/ us
/kənˈtroʊl/control noun (POWER)
B2 [ C or U ]
control over She doesn't have any control over that child - it's embarrassing.
out of/beyond/outside someone’s control There was nothing we could do about it - the situation was out of/beyond/outside our control.
crowd control She criticized the police's methods of crowd control.
- The army took control of the city after the president's fall from power.
- We keep a tight control on the organization's finances.
- The terrorists assumed control of the plane and forced it to land in the desert.
- The car went out of control and plunged over the cliff.
- Troops yesterday seized control of the broadcasting station.
- ahold
- all's well that ends well idiom
- all-powerful
- ascendancy
- authoritarianism
- be above someone's pay grade idiom
- discretionary
- grip
- he who pays the piper calls the tune. idiom
- hegemonic
- hegemonism
- implant
- power structure
- power struggle
- power vacuum
- power-sharing
- predominance
- sway
- the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world idiom
- yoke
control noun (SWITCH)
control panel The main instruments are in the centre of the control panel.
[ C usually singular ] (also control key); (written abbreviation Ctrl)
- clicker
- coaxial
- corded
- dimmer
- dimmer switch
- junction box
- national grid
- outlet
- override
- patch
- patch someone through
- pause
- plug
- plug (something) in/plug (something) into something
- plug-in
- powerbank
- spark plug
- switchboard
- terminal
- wire
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