Noun: containment kun'teynmunt- 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" - (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
- The act of containing; keeping something from spreading
"the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"
Derived forms: containments See also: contain Type of: policy, restraint, system Encyclopedia: Containment |