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Meaning of word containment from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

containment noun

Meaning : 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.

Example : Containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975.

Meaning : (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor.

Meaning : The act of containing. Keeping something from spreading.

Example : The containment of the AIDS epidemic.
The containment of the rebellion.

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