damage control

1. 1.

   an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss

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Questions about damage control

What does damage control mean?

damage control means "an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss".

Is damage control a common word?

damage control is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.