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containment   (TTS Sound)

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


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


• containment -- (the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion")