Definitions

damage control

NOUN

containment of damage or loss

Synonyms

WEAK

compensation correction damage assessment disaster control recompense troubleshooting

Example Sentences

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Inside Vanity Fair, a new editor in chief is doing damage control for the attention now fixed on one of his most high-profile hires.

From The Wall Street Journal

President Bola Tinubu has even stepped in to try and resolve the tensions, setting up a high-level committee to do some damage control.

From BBC

For most of Big Pharma, drug discounts have largely been about damage control.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it also attempts to do some damage control for Deen, who continues to reel from a bombshell 2013 deposition that soured her reputation and impacted her business — hard.

From Salon

So the amount of damage control and cajoling it will take to keep things on track after the disaster in Arizona is enough to make a good fire advocate’s head spin.

From Los Angeles Times