Containment - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|kənˈteɪnmənt|
Brit.
|kənˈteɪnm(ə)nt|
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 peacefully
- the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
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- the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
the containment of the AIDS epidemic
the containment of the rebellion
the containment of the rebellion
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The company's hazardous waste containment plan is being reviewed.
The government needs to adopt a containment strategy.
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