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under control

under control prepositional phrase: being taken care of or being addressed.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Being taken care of or being addressed.
    • Don't worry; the police have been called and the situation is under control.
  2. (literal) Being actively controlled, or able to be actively controlled in its current state.
    • Throughout the turbulence encounter, the pilots kept the aircraft under control.
    • The control rods absorb neutrons in the reactor core, keeping the fission reaction under control and preventing it from going prompt critical.

under control meaning in Bengali and Persian

under control in Bengali

under control, under possession
অঙ্কস্থ ôṅkôsthô, অঙ্কস্থিত ôṅkôsthitô

under control in Persian

being taken care of
تحت کنترل taht-e kontorol

Questions about under control

What does under control mean?
Under control means being taken care of or being addressed.
What is under control in Bengali?
Under control in Bengali is অঙ্কস্থ (ôṅkôsthô), অঙ্কস্থিত (ôṅkôsthitô). See Under control meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is under control?
Under control is a prepositional phrase.

Words near under control in the dictionary

  1. under boobs
  2. under canvas
  3. under center
  4. under clothes
  5. under construction
  6. under control
  7. under correction
  8. under cover
  9. under cover of darkness
  10. under cover of night
  11. under erasure

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Adapted from Wiktionary: under control (page history and authors); অঙ্কস্থ (Bengali) (page history and authors). 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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