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CONTAINMENT definition: 1. the act of controlling or limiting something or someone harmful: 2. an attempt to keep another…. Learn more.
The meaning of CONTAINMENT is the act, process, or means of keeping something within limits. How to use containment in a sentence.
CONTAINMENT meaning: 1. the act of controlling or limiting something or someone harmful: 2. an attempt to keep another…. Learn more.
The containment of something dangerous or unpleasant is the act or process of keeping it under control within a particular area or place. Fire crews are hoping they can achieve full containment of the fire before the winds pick up.
an act or policy of limiting the expansion or spread of a natural disaster, contagious disease, or other dangerous thing: Local farmers notified authorities of sick and dying birds more quickly than the previous year, ensuring quick containment of infection on the farm.
Containment is a way to keep something bad from spreading. If you get chicken pox, you won't be allowed back in school until you're not contagious anymore. Your school's aiming for containment of the disease by keeping you away from everyone else. Containment is also a foreign policy strategy.
Definition of containment noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. the act or condition of containing. 2. an act or policy of restricting the territorial growth or ideological influence of a hostile power, esp. a Communist power. 3. an enclosure surrounding a nuclear reactor designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material. [1645–55]
A policy of checking the expansion or influence of a hostile power or ideology, as by the creation of strategic alliances or support of client states in areas of conflict or unrest.
the act or condition of containing, esp of restraining the ideological or political power of a hostile country or the operations of a hostile military force. 'containment' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): China syndrome - biocontainment - dry lot - self-containment.
