Definition of Containment

Noun

  • the act of containing
    keeping something from spreading
    "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"
    "the containment of the rebellion"
  • (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 peacefully
    "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
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Unscramble containment

467 unscramble word found using the letters containment.
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