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. Francisco Ferreira:

   The risk of the highest case of economic impact of Ebola has been reduced because of the success of containment in some countries. It has not gone to zero because a great level of preparedness and focus is still needed, I would say the outlook has moved closer to the lower case of $3-$4 billion, than the upper case.

2. 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.

3. Foreign Minister Qin:

   The US claims it seeks to compete with China but does not seek conflict. But in reality, the so-called ‘competition’ by the US is all-round containment and suppression, a zero-sum game of life and death, containment and suppression will not make America great, and the US will not stop the rejuvenation of China.

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. Todd Abel:

   It did get across 77. We did... get aircraft in the air, and to try to catch this, what we call a slop over. It slopped over our containment line.