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control freakery

control freakery noun: the qualities of a control freak, an obsessive need or desire to be in control of what is happening.

Noun

control freakery (uncountable)

  1. The qualities of a control freak, an obsessive need or desire to be in control of what is happening.
    • Unless the railway gets its act together, DfT will consolidate its control-freakery and micro-management and we'll be stuck with it.2023 September 6, Nigel Harris, “Leaderless and rudderless”, in RAIL, number 991, page 3

Origin of control freakery

From control freak + -ery.

Questions about control freakery

What does control freakery mean?
Control freakery means the qualities of a control freak, an obsessive need or desire to be in control of what is happening.
What part of speech is control freakery?
Control freakery is a noun.

Words near control freakery in the dictionary

  1. control engineering
  2. control experiment
  3. control experiments
  4. control flow
  5. control freak
  6. control freakery
  7. control freakism
  8. control freaks
  9. control function
  10. control functions
  11. control gene

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