line of control

1. 1.

   a 450-mile line that is supposed to indicate the boundary between the part of Kashmir controlled by India and the part controlled by Pakistan

   Broaderboundary line

   Part ofKashmir

Questions about line of control

What does line of control mean?

line of control means "a 450-mile line that is supposed to indicate the boundary between the part of Kashmir controlled by India and the part controlled by Pakistan".

Is line of control a common word?

line of 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.