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controlling

controlling

75 4.2
Having enough shares or power to make important company decisions
  • adjective
  • /kənˈtroʊlɪŋ/
: controlador
  • Effective leadership often involves controlling team dynamics to foster collaboration.

And some men are with very controlling women, right?

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Examples

  • Many employees found their manager's controlling approach stifling and demotivating.

  • And some men are with very controlling women, right?

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  • It's very, it's giving, very controlling, just not good.

  • I think for me it was controlling the things that I can control.

  • So a lot of work on controlling disruption in my group.

  • It's incredible that you're controlling all of this.

  • The CEO implemented several controlling measures to improve workplace productivity.

Synonyms

powerful
vscontrolling
948 3.0

Having great influence over people and events

focuses on directing policy and actions within organizations
ruling
vscontrolling
139 3.9

In control of a country, organization, or group

applies to directing organizational policy rather than governmental authority
dominating
vscontrolling
6 5.6

Trying to control other people in a forceful or unfair way

describes power used without aggressive or overbearing behaviour

Antonyms

powerless
117 3.6

Unable to do or stop something because you have no control

submissive
39 5.1

Willing to obey others and not argue

Compounds

controlling interest
  • Specialized
7 3.5

Having more than half the voting shares of a company gives control over its decisions

How Controlling

domineering
13 7.4
authoritarian
56 7.5
controlling
75 4.2
influential
186 4.6

Surface Forms

controlling positive

Morphology

controlling = control (transparent) = control + ing

The adjective is formed by adding -ing to the verb 'control', yielding 'having power over' in a straightforward way.

Etymology

Controlling comes from the word control, which long ago meant 'to check' by comparing a document with a copy kept on a roll. So to be controlling is to have the power to check, direct, or decide things, which explains its modern meaning of influencing or managing actions.