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damage control

An effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss.

In naval usage, measures necessary aboard ship to preserve and reestablish watertight integrity, stability, maneuverability, and offensive power; to control list and trim; to effect rapid repairs of materiel; to limit the spread of and provide adequate protection from fire; to limit the spread of, remove the contamination by, and provide adequate protection from chemical, biological, and radiological agents; and to provide for care of wounded personnel. See also area damage control; disaster control.

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Noun

damage control - an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss

control - the activity of managing or exerting control over something; "the control of the mob by the police was admirable"

Translations

damage control, damage limitation

n → Schadensbegrenzung f

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