containment

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Noun containment has 3 senses

containment - a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
--₁ is a kind of policy

Derived form: verb contain₆
containment - (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
--₂ is a kind of system
containment - (military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"
--₃ is a kind of restraint
--₃ has particulars: ring containment
Derived form: verb contain₆

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