gaining control

Questions about gaining control

What does gaining control mean?

gaining control means "the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property".

What is another word for gaining control?

Close synonyms include capture, seizure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gaining control a common word?

gaining 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.