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crowd control

crowd control

11 3.4
Actions to keep large groups of people safe and orderly
  • noun
  • /kraʊd kənˈtroʊl/
translation icon : control de multitudes
  • The city held a training session for volunteers on crowd control strategies during public events.
  • do crowd control
  • the police on crowd control
  • traffic and crowd control

They're these little, they shoot wooden batons and they're basically for crowd control.

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Examples

  • I need you on crowd control.

    Jonny's Sweet Revenge (2017)

  • You have to admire their techniques in crowd control.

    Dragnet (1987)

  • I'll stay here and handle crowd control.

    Bloodletting (1997)

  • Police want bars and restaurants to hire their own security to deal with crowd control issues.

    Blog text (4)

  • Have the U.S. Marines handle crowd control.

    Blog text (18)

  • I didn't realize you were worried about crowd control.

    Enchanted (2007)

  • One of the necessities of being a food service manager, especially in a bar, is crowd control.

    Blog text (4)

  • What would be the role of the Nat'l Guard: labor replacement or crowd control?

    Blog text (27)

  • But now, more and more stores are opening on Thanksgiving night, and retailers think the earlier openings help with crowd control.

    Blog text (7)

  • Do you approve of some of the crowd control tactics that you've seen in the videos of these protests?

Antonyms

chaos
438 3.1

A situation with no order where people are confused and cannot act normally

disorder
31 3.7

A state in which things or places are not arranged

How Restrictive

to force
423 6.3
barrier
163 2.8
to police
50 3.1
crowd control
11 3.4
guidance
101 2.1

Surface Forms

crowd control singular
crowd controls plural

Morphology

crowd + control

The meaning 'abilities or effects that restrain or manage multiple enemies' is directly derivable from combining 'crowd' (a group of people or things) with 'control' (to direct or restrain). This is a straightforward noun-noun compound following normal compositional semantics and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely understand the phrase even if they are new to gaming jargon.

Etymology

Crowd control comes from the simple image of a large group of people, a crowd, being guided by barriers and officers, the control, so they move safely. That's why it means 'measures to manage and direct large groups of people'.