containmentnoun [ U ]
uk/kənˈteɪn.mənt/us/kənˈteɪn.mənt/the act of controlling or limiting something or someone harmful:
Containment of crowd violence was the police's main concern.
specialized politics an attempt to keep another country's political power within limits without having a war with them:
The government is pursuing a policy of containment.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Limiting and restricting
- box sb in
- chain
- circumscribe
- clamp down on sth
- clampdown
- curtail
- damage limitation
- debilitate
- delimit
- delimitation
- hamstring
- hedge
- infringe
- muzzle
- non-proliferation
- qualification
- ration
- rationing
- restrain
- stabilizer
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