Usually means: Maintaining control or restraint over.
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  1. in check: Merriam-Webster
  2. in check: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. in check: Collins English Dictionary
  4. in check: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. in check: Wiktionary
  6. in check: Dictionary.com
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Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. in check: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. in check: Legal dictionary

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  1. in check: Idioms

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adverb:  unable to act freely ("He held the enemy's armies in check")


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