Rein In

Definition: Rein In

Rein In

Verb

1. Stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins; "They reined in in front of the post office".

2. Control and direct with or as if by reins; as of a horse.

3. Stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins; "He reined in his horses in front of the post office".

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

Synonyms: Rein In

Restraint

Keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit; inhibit, cohibit.

Slowness

Retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground.

Crosswords: Rein In

Books

• Herbartianismus als Paradigma für Professionalisierung und Schulreform : ein Beitrag zur Bündner Schulgeschichte der Jahre 1880 bis 1930 und zur Wirkungsgeschichte der Pädagogik Herbarts und der Herbartianer Ziller, Stoy und Rein in der Schweiz (reference)

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Economic History

Indonesia

It is not clear whether the central government will act to rein in those taxes that are unnecessarily burdensome. (references)

Algeria

Although relatively free to write as they choose, in 2001, the government amended the penal code provisions relating to defamation and slander, a step widely viewed as an effort to rein in the press. (references)

China

In reaction to this turmoil, some local People's Liberation Army (PLA) commanders and other officials maneuvered to outwardly back Mao and the radicals while actually taking steps to rein in local radical activity. (references)

Political Economy

Russia

These and other initiatives are designed to strengthen the power of the center and to rein in regional leaders, some of whom have exercised almost unlimited authority in their own realms. (references)

TURKEY

Although Turkey enjoyed relatively high rates of economic growth in the 1990's, large public sector deficits have contributed to persistently high inflation and periodic economic crises as various governments have been forced to rein in spending. (references)

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Expression using "rein in": To rein in. Additional references.

Albanian

ngadalësohet. (various references)

Bulgarian 

обуздавам (bit, bridle, chastise, curb, hamshackle, harness, leash, manage, quell, repress, restrain, school, smother, steady). (various references)

Chinese 

�' (strangle). (various references)

Czech

přitáhnout uzdu. (various references)

Finnish

pysäyttää (arrest, bring to a standstill, check, cut off, hold up, pull up, stop). (various references)

French

ralentir, serrer la bride, maîtriser (repress, restrain). (various references)

German

zügeln (bridle, chasten, check, curb, hold in, keep in, pull in, quell, restrain, rule, school, tame, to curb), parieren (deflect, fence, Parry, to parry). (various references)

Hungarian

megállít (abort, arrest, back-stop, halt, pull up, stay, stop, to arrest, to check, to fetch up, to hold up, to pull up, to put to a stand, to rein in). (various references)

Italian

trattenere con briglie, limitare (abridge, bound, confine, curtail, cut down, limit, narrow, restrict, shrink, stint, straiten, surround). (various references)

Pig Latin

einray inay

Portuguese

reprimir (allay, arrest, bit, bridle, check, coerce, constrain, control, cork, douse, forbear, gulp, halt, keep back, keep down, overbear, quell, quench, refrain, repress, restrain, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, throttle, tutor, vanquish), regulamentar (control, regular, regulate, statutory), governar (command, control, govern, guide, helm, manage, master, rein, restrain, rule, steer, wield), dominar (come over, command, conquer, control, cover, dominate, domineer, enthral, enthrall, govern, have command of, lick, live out, lord, manage, master, outmatch, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpass, overpower, quell, rein, repress, restrain, rule, subdue, subject, subjugate, surmount, vanquish, wield), comandar (captain, come over, command, conduct, control, cover, dominate, head, officer). (various references)

Russian 

сдерживать (bottle up, check, coerce, constrain, control, dam back, hold back, hold in, hold in check, inhibit, keep, keep in check, moderate, rein back, repress, restrain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obuzdati (chasten, control, curb, keep in, leash, rein, restrain, school). (various references)

Spanish

refrenar (check, contain, control, govern, hold back, refrain, rein, rein back, restrain, rule), detenerse (draw rein, pause, pull up, rest, stop, stop by). (various references)

Swedish

tygla (bridle, chasten, check, curb, hold in, pull, rein, restrain), hålla tillbaka (Bate, check, force back, hold back, keep down, restrain). (various references)

Turkish

kotrol altında tutmak, idare etmek (administer, administrate, bestride, boss, conduct, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, handle, husband, look after, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make out, make shift, manage, manipulate, mastermind, officer, quarterback, rub, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer, supervise), dizginlemek (bridle, keep a tight rein on, rein back, restrain). (various references)

Turkmen 

jylawlamak (hold back (something)), ideklemek (hold in hand). (various references)

Ukrainian

осадити (rein back), зупинити (rein back, waylay), приборкати. (various references)

refreno. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: inner, renin.

-2 letters: nine, rein.

-3 letters: ern, inn, ire, rei, rin.

-4 letters: en, er, in, ne, re.

+1 letter: cinerin, finnier, ginnier, reining, tinnier.

+2 letters: arginine, cinerins, incliner, infringe, inhering, inshrine, nidering, refining, reigning, reinking, relining, renminbi, repining, resining, ripening, sirenian, skinnier, triennia, whinnier.

+3 letters: arginines, brininess, carnitine, cindering, crinoline, engirding, enquiring, enriching, financier, fingering, friending, gingering, hindering, incliners, inebriant, inferring, infringed, infringer, infringes, ingrained, innerving, inserting, insertion, inshrined, inshrines, insincere, interknit, interline, interlink, interning, internist, interring, interunit, inversion, inverting, itinerant, lingering, nickering, niderings, niffering, orienting, ornithine, rebinding, reclining, recoining, redlining, refinding, regaining, rehinging, rejoining, relinking, remaining, reminding, reminting, renailing, rendition, renigging, repinning, reshining, resigning, retaining, retinting, reuniting, rewinding, rewinning, richening, signorine, sintering, sirenians, squinnier, tinkering, tretinoin, triennial, triennium, unilinear, uraninite, wintering.