rein
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4.9
- noun
- /reɪn/
:
rienda
- Williams will take the reins amid faculty discontent and financial issues.
- free rein
- take the reins
- hold the reins
And so everyone else just hands the reins and control over to them.
- And so everyone else just hands the reins and control over to them.
- But ultimately it's, they've got the reins.
- It would be so much more comforting to believe that the reins have been taken by an evil genius.
- That is, unless a true ruler could take the reins and pull together the frayed threads that was Hellas.
- And so the executive network takes the reins.
- Is that where a ghostwriter comes in or a script doctor and they can kind of take the reins?
- Is that where a ghost writer comes in or a script doctor and they can kind of take the reins?
- Obviously, he's giving it, giving it some free rein, but I think I admire that about him.
Examples
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Outreach means letting local people take the reins to determine the best services.
Academic text (2015) -
The freedom part has to do with giving myself free rein, even as I stick to my strict schedule.
Academic text (2009) -
And so everyone else just hands the reins and control over to them.
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There was a moment where I lost the reins and I spent the rest of the fight trying to, to find them.
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I have taught her how to use my turntable and given her free rein over my record collection.
Academic text (2005) -
Teachers who are more authoritarian tend to maintain a tight rein on all aspects of the classroom.
Academic text (2014) -
Then, OPEC took the reins, and influence over oil prices shifted to the Middle East.
Academic text (2011) -
TANF ended welfare as a federal entitlement, turning over the reins to the states.
Academic text (2003) -
The coach gave the players free rein to express their creativity on the field.
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Teachers should allow students some rein in choosing their projects to foster independence.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
1
9.9
A rein used to keep a horse's head raised while pulling a carriage or when someone rides it
- Specialized
A plant with long stems of many small fragrant white flowers that grows in wet bogs
An orchid with thick stems and white fragrant flowers that grows along the United States Pacific coast
A North American orchid with small delicate blooms that grows from Alaska to Baja California and east to Colorado
- Specialized
A strap on a horse's bridle that directs the horse's head left or right
- Specialized
A wildflower from North America with a kidney-shaped lower part of the flower
- Specialized
A North American orchid with two round leaves and greenish white flowers on one stalk
How Controlling
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rein came to mean 'control' because a rein is the strap that guides a horse, and people began to use reins for any method of guiding or holding power over something, so taking the reins means taking charge.