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Words with a similar base: containment

'containment'

[containment.n.01] as in: 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

Examples:
containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975

'containment'

[containment.n.02] as in: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

'containment'

[containment.n.03] as in: the act of containing; keeping something from spreading

Examples:
the containment of the AIDS epidemic
the containment of the rebellion

Origins

					containment (English)
├── -ment (English)
│   └── -amentum (Latin)
└── contain (English)