Read the dictionary definition of containment. All definitions for this word.
1. the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
1. the containment of the AIDS epidemic
2. the containment of the rebellion
2. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
3. 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
1. containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975