containment


Meanings

  • 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"
  • (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
  • the act of containing; keeping something from spreading;
    • "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"
    • "the containment of the rebellion"

Synonyms


Scrabble Score: 15

containment is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

containment is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

containment is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 20

containment is a valid Words With Friends word