I.
noun
1 power over sb/sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ absolute , complete , full , total
▪ effective , proper ( esp. BrE )
▪ close , strict , tight
▪
Weeds should be kept under strict ~.
▪ direct
▪ centralized , government , political , social , state
▪ civilian , military
▪
He defended the tradition of civilian ~ over the military.
▪ parental
VERB + CONTROL
▪ have
▪ achieve , assert , establish , gain , get
▪ assume , grab , seize , take , win
▪
A military junta took ~ of the country.
▪ wrest (from sb)
▪
attempts to wrest ~ of the town from government forces
▪ keep , maintain , retain
▪
She struggled to keep ~ of her voice.
▪ lose
▪ cede , relinquish , surrender
▪
He lost ~ of the car when he swerved to avoid a bicycle.
▪ hand over , transfer
▪
He wants to hand over ~ of social security to the private sector.
▪ get out of , go out of
▪
The car went out of ~ on the icy road.
▪ reassert , re-establish , regain , retake
▪
Enemy forces have now regained ~ of the area.
▪ give sb/sth
▪
The idea is to give local authorities full ~ of their own budgets.
▪ exercise , exert
▪
Editors do not exercise ~ over large sections of their newspapers.
▪ centralize
▪
government plans to centralize ~ of schools
▪ bring sth under , get sth under
▪
They soon got the situation under ~.
CONTROL + NOUN
▪ freak
▪
He's a real ~ freak.
PREPOSITION
▪ beyond your ~ , outside your ~
▪
Parking is outside my ~.
▪ in ~ (of)
▪
The elected government is back in ~.
▪ out of ~
▪
I had this feeling that things were out of ~.
▪ under (sb's) ~
▪
Everything is under ~
▪
The department was under the ~ of Bryce Thompson.
▪ ~ over
▪
They have little ~ over that side of the business.
PHRASES
▪ circumstances beyond sb's ~
▪
The race has been called off due to circumstances beyond our ~.
2 limiting/managing sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ quality
▪ inventory ( esp. AmE ), stock ( esp. BrE )
▪ budgetary ( esp. BrE ), cost , rent
▪ crowd
▪
The police are experts in crowd ~.
▪ air traffic , traffic
▪ birth
▪ arms , gun
▪ crime
▪ damage
▪ erosion , flood , pest , pollution , weed
▪ bladder , impulse , weight
▪
Many teenagers have poor impulse ~.
VERB + CONTROL
▪ improve
▪ ensure
CONTROL + NOUN
▪ measure , mechanism
▪
New crime ~ measures have failed.
▪ centre/center , room , tower
▪
the air traffic ~ tower
3 ( usually controls ) method of limiting/managing sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ strict , stringent , tight , tough ( esp. BrE )
▪ lax
▪ border , export , price
▪
calls for tougher export ~s
VERB + CONTROL
▪ implement , impose , introduce
▪
The government has imposed strict ~s on new building.
▪ tighten
▪
The country has tightened its border ~s.
▪ relax
▪
plans to relax price ~s
▪ lift , remove
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ on
▪
They have introduced ~s on public spending.
4 for operating a machine
ADJECTIVE
▪ remote
▪ volume
▪ cruise
VERB + CONTROL
▪ take
▪
Once we were in the air, I was allowed to take the ~s.
CONTROL + NOUN
▪ panel
▪ device , stick ( AmE ), unit
▪
a programmable ~ unit
▪ circuit , valve
▪
the water pressure ~ valve
PREPOSITION
▪ at the ~s
▪
Chief Air Officer Sedley was at the ~s of the Boeing 707.
II.
verb
1 restrict/manage
ADVERB
▪ carefully , precisely , rigidly , strictly , tightly
▪
Conditions in the greenhouse are carefully controlled.
▪
Expenditure within the company is tightly controlled.
▪ adequately , effectively , properly
▪ poorly
▪ centrally , directly
2 operate
ADVERB
▪ automatically , electronically , manually
▪
The shutters can be electronically controlled.
▪ remotely
▪ easily
▪
You can easily ~ the speed of the fan.
Control is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ force , ↑ gene , ↑ ministry , ↑ muscle , ↑ nerve , ↑ party , ↑ pedal , ↑ regulation , ↑ switch
Control is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ access , ↑ aggression , ↑ airspace , ↑ anger , ↑ appetite , ↑ ball , ↑ behaviour , ↑ bladder , ↑ blaze , ↑ bleeding , ↑ blood pressure , ↑ breathing , ↑ budget , ↑ chaos , ↑ conversation , ↑ cost , ↑ council , ↑ craving , ↑ crime , ↑ crowd , ↑ desire , ↑ destiny , ↑ disease , ↑ distribution , ↑ drinking , ↑ economy , ↑ emission , ↑ emotion , ↑ enterprise , ↑ environment , ↑ erosion , ↑ excitement , ↑ executive , ↑ expenditure , ↑ export , ↑ fate , ↑ finance , ↑ fire , ↑ fit , ↑ flame , ↑ flea , ↑ flow , ↑ frontier , ↑ fury , ↑ growth , ↑ humidity , ↑ illness , ↑ immigration , ↑ import , ↑ impulse , ↑ inflation , ↑ insect , ↑ instinct , ↑ intake , ↑ laughter , ↑ level , ↑ lighting , ↑ machinery , ↑ malaria , ↑ market , ↑ mechanism , ↑ media , ↑ mind , ↑ mosquito , ↑ movement , ↑ muscle , ↑ nerve , ↑ number , ↑ pain , ↑ pest , ↑ pollution , ↑ printer , ↑ process , ↑ production , ↑ puppet , ↑ rage , ↑ reflex , ↑ situation , ↑ size , ↑ spread , ↑ supply , ↑ symptom , ↑ temper , ↑ temperature , ↑ tempo , ↑ territory , ↑ trade , ↑ traffic , ↑ tremor , ↑ urge , ↑ vermin , ↑ violence , ↑ voice , ↑ weed , ↑ zone