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at the helm

at the helm prepositional phrase: steering a vessel.

at the helm: steering a vessel
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Prepositional phrase

  1. (literally) Steering a vessel.
  2. (idiomatic) In charge of a company or project.
    • Palace defended with great discipline, one of the many hallmarks of Oliver Glasner’s stunning year or so at the helm, and in the final analysis, Manchester City did not do enough in creative terms.2025 May 17, David Hytner, “Crystal Palace stun Manchester City to win FA Cup amid drama and Henderson controversy”, in The Guardian
    • After ten years at the helm of most buses and trains in Northern Ireland, what are Chris Conway's plans from June onwards?2026 March 18, Chris Conway talks to Andy Comfort, “The RAIL Interview”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 35

at the helm meaning in Malayalam

at the helm in Malayalam

in control, in charge, in command
അമരത്ത്, ചുക്കാൻ പിടിച്ച്, ചുമതലയിൽ, നിയന്ത്രണസ്ഥാനത്ത്, നേതൃസ്ഥാനത്ത്, നായകസ്ഥാനത്ത്

Words that rhyme with at the helm

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Questions about at the helm

What does at the helm mean?
At the helm means steering a vessel.
What is at the helm in Malayalam?
At the helm in Malayalam is അമരത്ത്, ചുക്കാൻ പിടിച്ച്, ചുമതലയിൽ. See At the helm meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is at the helm?
At the helm is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at the helm in the dictionary

  1. at the feet of
  2. at the first
  3. at the first brunt
  4. at the hand of
  5. at the hands of
  6. at the helm
  7. at the high port
  8. at the instance of
  9. at the last
  10. at the last minute
  11. at the last moment

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: at the helm (page history and authors); at the helm (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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