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. 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.

2. Stephen Innes:

   Some shorts covered after the director gave the WHO's stamp of approval to China's aggressive containment effort, for now, the market's risk lights have shifted from flickering on red to a steady shade of amber, which could bring more risk back into play.

3. Alex Azar:

   But thanks to President Trump's historically aggressive containment efforts, we've actually contained the spread of this virus here in the United States at this point, i think part of the message to the American people is we all need to take a bit of deep breath here.

4. Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson:

   I happen to live in the containment zone Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, i'll be having lunch with my family in the containment zone a little bit later today, so I think the label alone can create a somewhat misleading impression.

5. Frank Yiannas:

   Clearly, I really wish, and I should have been notified sooner, so I could have initiated containment steps earlier. Had that happened, I believe we might not be here today, had the agency responded quicker to some of the earlier signals, I believe this crisis could have been averted or at least the magnitude lessened.