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  • containment :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

  • containment :the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
    • the containment of the AIDS epidemic
    • the containment of the rebellion

  • containment :(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

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