riot control

1. 1.

   the measures taken to control a riot

   Synonymsriot control operation

   Broadercontrol

Questions about riot control

What does riot control mean?

riot control means "the measures taken to control a riot".

What is another word for riot control?

Close synonyms include riot control operation. 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 riot control a common word?

riot 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.