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containment - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'containment' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Containment [ n.]
- That which is contained; the extent; the substance.

Meaning of 'containment' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . containment [ n]
Meaning (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
Example in sentence:
  • containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975
Meaning (2):
- the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
Example in sentence:
  • the containment of the AIDS epidemic;
  • the containment of the rebellion

Nearby Words:

con con- conacre conarium conation conative conatus concamerate concameration concatenate

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