- 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 pecefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
--1 is a kind of policy
Derived form: verb contain6 - containment - (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
--2 is a kind of system
- containment - (military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"
--3 is a kind of restraint
--3 has particulars: ring containmentDerived form: verb contain6 - containment - (military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"