flood control

1. 1.

   (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods

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   engineering

Questions about flood control

What does flood control mean?

flood control means "(engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods".

Is flood control a common word?

flood 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.