procontrol

adjective more procontrol · most procontrol · pro-control

1. Supportive of greater government control over society, authoritarian or supportive of greater authoritarianism. Conservative procontrol values (including importance of crime prevention and support for extensive police powers) correlate positively with lethal violence. Social trust, in turn, correlates inversely and strongly with homicide... Southern states have, on average, more than double the homicide rate
2. Synonym of protectionist: supportive of export controls over international trade, especially for political ends or to prevent technology transfer. The pattern of U.S. trade expansion followed by trade restrictions also appears to have characterized U.S.-Soviet economic relations, not only for the past three decades, but plausibly since the 1920s. Unlike earlier fluctuations, however, recent cycles have been occurring more rapidly and lasting a

   Similar: protectionist

3. Synonym of antigun: supportive of greater gun control, typically inclusive of opposition to gun rights. 2013, NRA Institute for Legal Action, "Emily Gets Her Gun!" Miller links together a mountain of facts to dismantle the pro-control arguments concocted by the president and his allies, and calculatingly fed to the American people by many of her peers in the Fourth Estate.

   Similar: antigun

Similar: bossy · Opposite: anticontrol