Definition of "control"
control
/kənˈtɹəʊl/
verb
third-person singular simple present controls, present participle controlling, simple past and past participle controlled
noun
countable and uncountable, plural controls
(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.