absolute, complete, full, total
effective, proper (esp. BrE)
close, strict, tight
Weeds should be kept under strict control.

direct
centralized, government, political, social, state
civilian, military
He defended the tradition of civilian control over the military.

parental

have
achieve, assert, establish, gain, get
assume, grab, seize, take, win
A military junta took control of the country.

wrest (from sb)
attempts to wrest control of the town from government forces

keep, maintain, retain
She struggled to keep control of her voice.

lose
cede, relinquish, surrender
He lost control of the car when he swerved to avoid a bicycle.

hand over, transfer
He wants to hand over control of social security to the private sector.

get out of, go out of
The car went out of control on the icy road.

reassert, re-establish, regain, retake
Enemy forces have now regained control of the area.

give sb/sth
The idea is to give local authorities full control of their own budgets.

exercise, exert
Editors do not exercise control over large sections of their newspapers.

centralize
government plans to centralize control of schools

bring sth under, get sth under
They soon got the situation under control.

freak
He's a real control freak.

beyond your control, outside your control
Parking is outside my control.

in control (of)
The elected government is back in control.

out of control
I had this feeling that things were out of control.

under (sb's) control
Everything is under control
The department was under the control of Bryce Thompson.

control over
They have little control over that side of the business.

circumstances beyond sb's control
The race has been called off due to circumstances beyond our control.

quality
inventory (esp. AmE), stock (esp. BrE)
budgetary (esp. BrE), cost, rent
crowd
The police are experts in crowd control.

air traffic, traffic
birth
arms, gun
crime
damage
erosion, flood, pest, pollution, weed
bladder, impulse, weight
Many teenagers have poor impulse control.

improve
ensure

measure, mechanism
New crime control measures have failed.

centre/center, room, tower
the air traffic control tower

strict, stringent, tight, tough (esp. BrE)
lax
border, export, price
calls for tougher export controls

implement, impose, introduce
The government has imposed strict controls on new building.

tighten
The country has tightened its border controls.

relax
plans to relax price controls

lift, remove

control on
They have introduced controls on public spending.

remote
volume
cruise

take
Once we were in the air, I was allowed to take the controls.

panel
device, stick (AmE), unit
a programmable control unit

circuit, valve
the water pressure control valve

at the controls
Chief Air Officer Sedley was at the controls of the Boeing 707.

carefully, precisely, rigidly, strictly, tightly
Conditions in the greenhouse are carefully controlled.
Expenditure within the company is tightly controlled.

adequately, effectively, properly
poorly
centrally, directly

automatically, electronically, manually
The shutters can be electronically controlled.

remotely
easily
You can easily control the speed of the fan.

Control is used with these nouns as the subject:
force, gene, ministry, muscle, nerve, party, pedal, regulation, switch

Control is used with these nouns as the object:
access, aggression, airspace, anger, appetite, ball, behaviour, bladder, blaze, bleeding, blood pressure, breathing, budget, chaos, conversation, cost, council, craving, crime, crowd, desire, destiny, disease, distribution, drinking, economy, emission, emotion, enterprise, environment, erosion, excitement, executive, expenditure, export, fate, finance, fire, fit, flame, flea, flow, frontier, fury, growth, humidity, illness, immigration, import, impulse, inflation, insect, instinct, intake, laughter, level, lighting, machinery, malaria, market, mechanism, media, mind, mosquito, movement, muscle, nerve, number, pain, pest, pollution, printer, process, production, puppet, rage, reflex, situation, size, spread, supply, symptom, temper, temperature, tempo, territory, trade, traffic, tremor, urge, vermin, violence, voice, weed, zone