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containment

con·tain·ment

UK/kənˈteɪnmənt/ US/kʌˈnteɪnmʌnt/ fairly common

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 peacefully

  • “containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States”
2.
3.

(military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading

  • “the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces”

Origin

From contain + -ment.

Phrases

  • break containment
  • cat containment
  • containment boom
  • containment line

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