job control

1. 1.

   a program that is called to prepare each job to be run

   Broaderprogram

Questions about job control

What does job control mean?

job control means "a program that is called to prepare each job to be run".

Is job control a common word?

job 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.