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containment

English

  1. 🔊 the act of containing
    “the containment of the AIDS epidemic”
  2. 🔊 (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
  3. 🔊 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

  1. 🔊 contenimiento containment

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