Definition of "remote control" [remote control]

• The control of an activity, process, or machine from a distance, as by radioed instructions or coded signals. (noun)
• A device used to control an apparatus or machine from a distance. (noun)

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• "I hit the remote control to close the garage door, dropping him gently into the deep ultramarine blue that presaged the coming dawn, and wondered if he, a detective of such repute, could miss the symptoms that Faye was displaying."
• "Two months behind on their mortgage and he still arrived home some nights, pale and exhausted, with ribbon-wrapped remote control cars for the boys, stuffed bears for Laura."
• "Riaz Pasha had centralized the imperial government and now ran the Sudan by remote control from Cairo."