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containment
noun(con-tain-ment)
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
Examples:
Containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975.
containment
noun(con-tain-ment)
(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
containment
noun(con-tain-ment)
the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
Examples:
The containment of the AIDS epidemic.
The containment of the rebellion.

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