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Synonyms for containment
kənˈteɪn məntcon·tain·ment
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Princeton's WordNet
containmentnoun
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
"containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
containmentnoun
(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
containmentnoun
the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
"the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "containment":
confining, confinement, lockdown, contention, restraint, impoundment, damming, encirclement, isolation, contain, limitation, restraining, retention
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2700 | contain | |
#6563 | retention | |
#6994 | limitation | |
#8045 | isolation | |
#15035 | restraint | |
#16250 | containment | |
#17032 | contention | |
#19967 | confinement | |
#26799 | restraining | |
#31610 | lockdown | |
#50478 | impoundment | |
#51173 | confining | |
#119490 | damming | |
#174444 | encirclement |
How to use containment in a sentence?
Containment was something that might have been good during the Cold War, but we're facing an enemy in radical Islamic terrorism that's willing to take the fight to us and we need to make sure that our men and women in uniform not only have the resources to protect us and keep our country safe, but they need to have the resources to keep themselves safe.
This all adds up to attempted containment - getting through 2016 until it becomes someone else's problem.
They were very successful until early this morning, it did get across 77. We did... get aircraft in the air, and to try to catch this, what we call a slop over. It slopped over our containment line.
Don't forget that we have an advantage in that most parts of our country go through significant winter, that kills the mosquitos right off. And we handle local outbreaks in warm places like Florida with quick containment and eradication.
Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt:
We have to focus on containment and capacity.
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