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• rein sth back — UK US rein sth in/back Phrasal Verb with rein({{}}/reɪn/ verb (also rein back on sth) ► to control something and stop it increasing: »Consumers tend to rein in their spending in a recession. »Some of the worst Wall Street abuses have been reined… …   Financial and business terms

• hold something back — 1 Jane held back the tears: SUPPRESS, fight back, choke back, stifle, smother, subdue, rein in, repress, curb, control, keep a tight rein on; …   Useful english dictionary

• rein — ▪ I. rein rein 1 [reɪn] noun 1. keep a tight rein on something to control something strictly: • The finance director keeps a tight rein on spending. 2. take/​hand over the reins to take or give someone control over an organization or country: • I …   Financial and business terms

• Rein — For other uses, see Rein (disambiguation). Reins are used to slow and direct the animal …   Wikipedia

• rein — rein1 [ reın ] noun count 1. ) usually plural a long narrow piece of leather fastened to a horse s head that the rider uses to control the horse a ) BRITISH a set of bands fastened around a small child that an adult holds so that the child can… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• rein sth in/back — UK US rein sth in/back Phrasal Verb with rein({{}}/reɪn/ verb (also rein back on sth) ► to control something and stop it increasing: »Consumers tend to rein in their spending in a recession. »Some of the worst Wall Street abuses have been reined… …   Financial and business terms

• rein sth in — UK US rein sth in/back Phrasal Verb with rein({{}}/reɪn/ verb (also rein back on sth) ► to control something and stop it increasing: »Consumers tend to rein in their spending in a recession. »Some of the worst Wall Street abuses have been reined… …   Financial and business terms

• rein — [13] A rein is etymologically something that ‘retains’. It goes back via Old French rene to Vulgar Latin *retina, a descendant of the Latin verb retinēre ‘hold back’, from which English gets retain and retinue. The rein for horses has no… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• rein back — PHRASAL VERB To rein back something such as spending means to control it strictly. [V P n (not pron)] He promised that between now and the end of the year the government would try to rein back inflation. [Also V n P] Syn: check …   English dictionary

• rein — [13] A rein is etymologically something that ‘retains’. It goes back via Old French rene to Vulgar Latin *retina, a descendant of the Latin verb retinēre ‘hold back’, from which English gets retain and retinue. The rein for horses has no… …   Word origins