Definition: Control, controls

Category: OECD terminology

There are two meanings relevant to management and administration:

1. mechanisms and means for guidance, self-regulation, or restraint, intended to prevent mishap, as in a pilot controlling an aircraft. Many languages do not have words directly equivalent to this meaning of “control”; and
2. to check, verify, audit or to keep a copy of the accounts. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/OCDE_09E74304_en.pdf