military control

1. 1.

   the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power

   Synonymsoccupation

   Broadersocial control

   military

Questions about military control

What does military control mean?

military control means "the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power".

What is another word for military control?

Close synonyms include occupation. 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 military control a common word?

military 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.