0 a long, thin piece of material, especially leather, that helps you to control and direct a horse:
1 a long thin piece of material, esp. leather, used to control a horse
4 to allow something to happen freely and completely:
5 to control something very carefully:
We need to keep a tight rein on the advertising budget.
The pre-election boom had to be reined back in i960, and a period of economic 'stop-go' policies ensued.
Once continuations become denotable, expressible elements of our language, the genie is out of the bottle, and even powerful analyses will have a difficult time reining it back in.
He is now suffering from an incurable disease and has had to hand over the reins of office.
When the memories of the last, partly mismanaged, tightly reined exchange rate mechanism have faded, we shall look again for such a system.
We have succeeded in curbing and reining back unnecessary expenditure to a degree never undertaken by our predecessors.
Every party in turn draws tighter the reins of its party discipline, and by doing so it gets a differential advantage.
There was a great deal about reins, but very little about spurs in his mentality.
To whom did we want to hand the reins of influence in that decision?
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(尤指皮質的)繮繩, (領幼兒走路時防止其走失的)安全繩套,保護帶…
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