Take Control

Definition: Take Control

Take Control

Verb

1. Assume control.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Take Control

Crosswords: Take Control

You can get in my head, you can take control of my body, but there is one thing you can never take away from a Saiyanhis pride! (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson)

Can you take control of me ("Rock Wit U(Awww Baby)"; performing artist: ASHANTI)

Take control of your life ("Give It Up, Turn It Loose"; performing artist: En Vogue)

Come take control, just grab a hold ("Sexual Healing"; performing artist: MARVIN GAYE)

You pack your bag You take control. ("Dangerous"; performing artist: Roxette)

I take control ("Your Shadow, My Shelter"; performing artist: Surface)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Broken Sky #6: Take Control (reference)

• Leader of the Pack: How to Take Control of Your Relationship With Your Dog (reference)

• Take Control (reference)

• Take Control with Your 401 (k): An Employee's Guide to Maximizing Your Investments (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Take Control (reference)

• Take Control [CD-SINGLE] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Take Control of Party (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Harman Kardon TC-1000 Take Control System Controller (reference)

• Harman Kardon TCSC Take Control 1-Touch Remote (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Avoid Unwanted Pregnancy USE A CONDOM : Take control of life before life controls you.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

You Too Can Become Pregnant : Take control of life before life controls you.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Work as a partner with your doctors and other health professionals in your continuing care. When you first were treated for cancer, you may have taken an active part in making decisions about your care. The same active role can help you take control of your long term health needs. (references)

Business

After the opening of the telecommunications market and the increase of business opportunities in the region, Millicom acquired enough shares to take control of the former monopoly. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

The Belarusian Patriotic Union of Youth, a regime-subsidized presidential youth organization, was permitted to take control of Radio 101.2. An independent Belarusian-language crossborder radio station, Radio Ratcija, based in Poland, began operating in 2000. However, in April 2000, the Foreign Ministry's special commission for accrediting foreign journalists refused to register four of the radio station's journalists based in Belarus. (references)

Economic History

New Zealand

Approval by the Overseas Investment Commission (OIC) is required for all foreign direct investment (both acquisitions and greenfield investments), where an "overseas person" is to acquire or take control of "significant" assets in New Zealand. (references)

Poland

The government's inability to forestall Poland's economic decline led to waves of strikes across the country in April, May, and August 1988. In an attempt to take control of the situation, the government gave de facto recognition to Solidarity, and Interior Minister Kiszczak began talks with Lech Walesa on August 31. These talks broke off in October, but a new series, the "roundtable" talks, began in February 1989. These talks produced an agreement in April for partly open National Assembly elections. (references)

Human Rights

Angola

Undocumented Congolese workers in diamond fields were targeted by government or UNITA forces seeking to take control of alluvial diamond mining operations. (references)

Indigenous People

Venezuela

On July 16, four members of the Pume indigenous people in Apure state were killed during an apparent effort to take control of the land they occupied, according to a Pume witness. (references)

Political Economy

Panama

However, as noted, a Solidarity legislator defected from his party in 2000 to join the PRD-PDC coalition to take control of the Legislative Assembly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

marr në duart e veta. (various references)

Arabic 

‏سيطر (boss, command, control, dominate, govern, grip, keep, master, overcome, overpower, possess, predominate, reign, repress, rule, sew up, wield). (various references)

Czech

ujmout se řízení. (various references)

French

contrôler. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שתלט (boss, command, dominate, have control, master, overpower, overrule, seize). (various references)

Hungarian

átveszi az irányítást (take charge of, to take charge). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay ontrolcay.(various references)

Russian 

взять управление. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kontrolisati (checkpoint, control, monitor, watch). (various references)

Spanish

tomar el control, tomar control sobre (get hold of). (various references)

Turkish

yönetimi ele almak, idareyi almak. (various references)

Ukranian 

взяти керування на себе. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: contralto.

-3 letters: caretook, colorant, coronate, corotate, ecotonal, tolerant.

-4 letters: arnotto, calotte, cartoon, central, clatter, contort, control, coolant, coranto, corneal, coronae, coronal, coronel, coronet, crankle, earlock, enactor, knotter, lactone, locater, locator, oarlock, octanol, ortolan, rattoon, rootlet, tackler, tootler.

-5 letters: anklet, antler, atoner, attorn, calker, canker, canter, cantle, cantor, carnet, cartel, carton, cattle, cental, centra, claret, cloner, coaler, coater, colone, colter, conker, contra, cooker, cooler, cooter, cornea, cornel, cornet, corona, cottae, cottar, cotter, cotton, craton, croton, enroot, etalon, lacker, lancer, lancet, lanker, latent, latten, latter, learnt, lector, loaner, locate, locker, locket, looker, looter, natter, nectar, notate, ocelot, octane, octant, oracle, ornate, racket, rackle, racoon, rankle, ratoon, ratten, rattle, ratton, recant, reckon, recoal, recook, rectal, reloan, relock, relook, rental, retack, retook, retool, rocket, rotate, rotten, tacker, tacket, tackle, talent, talker, tanker, tanrec, tectal, tolane, tonlet, tooler, tooter, tootle, torten, trance.

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