Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun controller

3 senses of controller

Sense 1
accountant, comptroller, controller -- (someone who maintains and audits business accounts)
       => businessperson, bourgeois -- (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)

Sense 2
restrainer, controller -- (a person who directs and restrains)
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; "there was too much for one person to do")

Sense 3
control, controller -- (a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine; "the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly"; "I turned the controls over to her")
       => mechanism -- (device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function)