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Containment - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Containment : (noun)
1: 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"
2: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental
release of radioactive material from a reactor
3: (military) the act of containing something or someone;
keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the
containment of the rebel forces"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Containment : \Con*tain"ment\, n.
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. [Obs.]
The containment of a rich man's estate. --Fuller.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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