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Containment   /kəntˈeɪnmənt/   Listen
Containment

noun
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 peacefully.
2.
(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor.
3.
The act of containing; keeping something from spreading.  "The containment of the rebellion"



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"Containment" Quotes from Famous Books



... learned self-containment in a hard school, looked up at him, and said: "Spanish filly! Do you mean that girl we saw dancing in the Pandemonium Ballet? Well, you are a thief and a blackguard." It had been the last straw on a sorely loaded consciousness; reaching up from his chair Dartie seized his wife's ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... millions of francs in Italy, the one foreign country for which we feel genuine affection. You Italians have thriven on our commercial and industrial enterprise. Spare our property now and you shall not rue your self-containment. After the war the Entente people will shun us as lepers, and our only hope of finding outlets for our commerce is through the neutral States. Now, of all the European Great Powers, Italy is the ...
— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon
... self-containment was passed. Excitement bubbled over. I picked up my feet and ran ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne


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