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containment
English
- 🔊 the act of containing“the containment of the AIDS epidemic”
- 🔊 (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
- 🔊 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”
Spanish
- 🔊 contenimiento containment
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