Definition of containment

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Definition of 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 (noun)

    Examples

    1. containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975
  • (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor (noun)
  • the act of containing; keeping something from spreading (noun)

    Examples

    1. the containment of the AIDS epidemic
    2. the containment of the rebellion

See definition of containment in Merriam Webster