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control

control (also: inspection, check, checkup) /konˈtrol/

noun#595 most common

Also: inspection, checkup, audit

Example sentences

Am un control la doctor mâine.
I have a checkup at the doctor's tomorrow.
Controlul biletelor durează cinci minute.
The ticket check takes five minutes.
Poliția a oprit mașina pentru un control de rutină.
The police stopped the car for a routine check.
Nu mai am niciun control asupra propriei vieți.
I no longer have any control over my own life.
Controalele fiscale neanunțate au speriat mulți antreprenori.
Unannounced tax inspections scared many entrepreneurs.
Menținerea controlului asupra fluxurilor migratorii a devenit o miză centrală a dezbaterii politice europene.
Maintaining control over migratory flows has become a central stake in the European political debate.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativecontrolulcontroalele
Genitivecontroluluicontroalelor
Accusativecontrolulcontroalele
Vocativecontrolulecontroalelor

Word family

a controlato control, to inspect, to check
controlorinspector, ticket controller
controlatcontrolled
necontrolatuncontrolled
autocontrolself-control

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "control" from French "contrôle" in the nineteenth century, part of a wave of French administrative and technical vocabulary. The French word itself goes back to Medieval Latin "contrarotulus", a duplicate register kept to verify an original account. The sense shifted over time from "a checking document" to the general modern idea of oversight or command.

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