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| Sounds | kahntey'nmahnt |
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| Rhymes | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, and 658 more rhymes in ahnt... |
| Meaning | 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. |
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| Examples | "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975" |
| Broader | policy |
| Verbs | contain |
| Meaning | (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor. |
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| Category | physics, physical science, natural philosophy |
| Broader | system |
| Meaning | The act of containing. Keeping something from spreading. |
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| Examples | "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion" |
| Broader | restraint |
| Narrower | ring containment |
| Verbs | contain |
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