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English to English noun
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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
source: wordnet30
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(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | | source: wordnet30
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the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | | Example: the containment of the AIDS epidemic
the containment of the rebellion
source: wordnet30
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That which is contained; the extent; the substance. | | source: webster1913
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