Definitions of containment:
- noun: (military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading
Example: "The army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"
- noun: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
- noun: 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
Example: "Containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
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