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containment [n]
 
1)a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
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    See Also: policy  arrest 
 
2)(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
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    See Also: system  natural_philosophy 
 
3)(military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"
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    See Also: restraint  armed_forces  arrest  ring_containment 
 



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