Controls
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
This record category contains standards used as a comparison for checking and verifying results of a survey or experiment or contains policies, procedures, practices, and organizational structures designed to provide reasonable assurance that the business objectives will be achieved and undesired events will be prevented or detected.
Framework senses
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- This record category contains standards used as a comparison for checking and verifying results of a survey or experiment or contains policies, procedures, practices, and organizational structures designed to provide reasonable assurance that the business objectives will be achieved and undesired events will be prevented or detected.
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- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
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- in physiology, regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
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- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
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- discipline in personal and social activities
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- power to direct or determine
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- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
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- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
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- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
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- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
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- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
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- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another