decontrolled

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English

Pronunciation

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Verb

decontrolled

  1. simple past and past participle of decontrol

Adjective

decontrolled (comparative more decontrolled, superlative most decontrolled)

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