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Defenition of the word containment

    • Defenition of the word containment

      • The reinforced steel or concrete vessel that encloses a nuclear reactor.
      • the act of containing something
      • the act of containing; "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"
      • (military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"
      • (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
      • 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 1
      • the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
      • 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

    Synonyms for the word containment

      • control
      • inhibition
      • repression
      • restraint
      • suppression

    Similar words in the containment

      • containment
      • containment's

    Hyponyms for the word containment

      • ring containment

    Hypernyms for the word containment

      • inclusion
      • policy
      • restraint
      • system

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