What is the meaning of containment?

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.
    • usage: "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.
    • usage: "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"
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