in hand

1. 1.

   under control

   “the riots were in hand”

   Antonymsout of hand

Questions about in hand

What does in hand mean?

in hand means "under control".

What is the opposite of in hand?

The recorded antonyms are out of hand.

Is in hand a common word?

in hand is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.