take control

1. 1.

   assume control

   Synonymstake holdtake charge

   Broaderhead

   Narrowermove in on

Questions about take control

What does take control mean?

take control means "assume control".

What is another word for take control?

Close synonyms include take hold, take charge. 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 take control a common word?

take 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.