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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

decontrolled en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /diːkənˈtɹəʊɫd/ (UK)

Meanings

  1. Released from a form of control.
    • The acolytes are now swirling their red fabric sheaths. The man on the table is, if anything, more decontrolled, more uncentered, than before. 2004, David Gere, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS, page 249:
    • “very single tenant living in a decontrolled apartment can file for overcharges. 2009 March 6, Charles V. Bagli, “Rents at Stuyvesant Town Were Wrongly Raised, Court Says”, in New York Times:

Forms

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more decontrolled Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most decontrolled Degree=Sup lexicographic

decontrolled en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /diːkənˈtɹəʊɫd/ (UK)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of decontrol
    form of decontrol