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Containment

The state of being contained.

📖 Definitions of "Containment"

noun
  1. 1

    The state of being contained.

  2. 2

    The state of containing.

  3. 3

    Something contained.

  4. 4

    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.

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