0 the act of controlling or limiting something or someone harmful:
1 Containment was also a policy of the United States and other countries to prevent an increase in Soviet influence after World War II.
Rapid containment of emerging diseases is vital in order to avoid a large scale epidemic.
Many traditional containment measures are no longer effective given people’s expectations of more freedom of movement.
Anthrax was found in three places outside the containment lab.
He advocates diplomatic engagement over containment or confrontation.
He scaled down military action, following a strategy of containment.
The relation ^ is simply interpreted as ideal containment.
Extensive redundancies are avoided without losing the necessary degree of self-containment of each of the chapters.
