Word info

damage control

Noun

Meaning

an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss

Source: WordNet

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Examples

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control. Kevin Mitnick

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that's on fire. Chuck Palahniuk

No-one will ever tell me that Brexit is a good thing because as I have always said, in fact, Brexit is only about damage control. Donald Tusk

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian. Terry Southern

The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success. Vivek Wadhwa

I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine. Ndamukong Suh

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