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containment - Dictionary definition and meaning for containment

CONTAINMENT

  • (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading

    "the containment of the AIDS epidemic", "the containment of the rebellion"

  • (noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

  • (noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully

    "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"

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