crowd control
The supervision and control of a crowd of people, to keep the crowd orderlyThe supervision and control of a crowd of people, to keep the crowd orderly.
» The police managed to keep the crowd under control.
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2 senses(uncountable)The supervision and control of a crowd of people, to keep the crowd orderly.
(uncountable)The intentional impairing or disabling of multiple targets, often through the use of abilities or effects.
- activity of controlling a crowd
Examples
2 sentencesThe police managed to keep the crowd under control.
In the early part of my study, I allude to work that had already been done on the psychology of crowd-control.
deIm ersten Teil meiner Untersuchung beziehe ich mich auf Arbeiten, die bereits auf dem Feld der Psychologie der Kontrolle von Massen gemacht worden sind. — Tamy
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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