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containment

/kənˈteɪnmənt/noun3 syllables

Containment means: 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.

What does containment mean?3

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' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975”

2

(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

3

the act of containing; keeping something from spreading“the containment of the AIDS epidemic”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with containment?2

three syllables

attainment

four syllables

entertainment
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Containment in a sentence

  • The end of containment will be a relief for the whole world.Massi
  • Dmitri took the zombie to a zombie containment room.Amastan
  • The doctors reviewed their containment procedures.Amastan

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Forms of containment

as a noun

plural
containments