CONTAINMENT

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Scrabble letter values: C3O1N1T1A1I1N1M3E1N1T1 = 15

Definition

  1. 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.
  2. noun (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor.
  3. 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”

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