Antonyms for containment
kənˈteɪn məntcon·tain·ment

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Princeton's WordNet

1. 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"

2. containmentnoun

   (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

3. containmentnoun

   the act of containing; keeping something from spreading

   "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"

How to use containment in a sentence?

1. Louis Kuijs:

   In large part because of a significantly better containment of the virus, most Asian economies are performing better than their Western counterparts.

2. Christine Lagarde:

   There are clearly signs of improvement, progress with vaccination campaigns and an envisaged gradual relaxation of containment measures underpin expectations of a firm rebound in economic activity in the course of 2021.

3. Frederic Hof:

   This all adds up to attempted containment - getting through 2016 until it becomes someone else's problem.

4. Scott Walker:

   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.

5. Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt:

   We have to focus on containment and capacity.

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