CONTAINMENT
Scrabble letter values: C3O1N1T1A1I1N1M3E1N1T1 = 15
Definition
- 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.
- noun (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor.
- noun the act of containing.
Examples
- “containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975”
- “keeping something from spreading”
- “the containment of the AIDS epidemic”