Synonyms for containment
kənˈteɪn məntcon·tain·ment

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"

Matched Categories

1. • Physics
   • Policy
   • Restraint
   • System

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1. List of paraphrases for "containment":

   confining, confinement, lockdown, contention, restraint, impoundment, damming, encirclement, isolation, contain, limitation, restraining, retention

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1. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams:

   Initially, we had a posture of containment so that we could give people time to prepare for where we are right now. We're shifting into a mitigation phase, which means that we're helping communities understand Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams're going to see more cases, unfortunately, you're going to see more deaths. But that doesn't mean that we should panic.

2. Christine Lagarde:

   The resurgence of the pandemic and the associated intensification of containment measures have likely led to a decline in activity in the fourth quarter of 2020 and are also expected to weigh on activity in the first quarter of this year.

3. The Texas Republican:

   All we're seeing is a policy of containment.

4. Frederic Hof:

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

5. Lloyd Chan:

   Recovery momentum should gather pace from the second quarter onwards, led by strong export prospects as global growth and 5G deployment pick up speed, a vaccine rollout around February should also stimulate domestic demand, as it would reduce the need for stringent containment measures.