Containment

Quick meaning: Containment is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state of being contained.

Meaning

(uncountable) The state of being contained.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
2. (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.
3. (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
4. (uncountable, countable) A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
5. (obsolete, uncountable, countable) Something contained.

Example Sentences

The containment of a rich man's estate.

A new siding and turnback facility at Midleton will also be developed, along with new cable containment routes.

Mr. Putin has reinvigorated an alliance that spent years confused about its purpose once it lost the adversary it was formed to contain, the Soviet Union. Now, containment is back.

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