| 单词 | containment |
| 释义 | containment (once / 7086 pages) n 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. If one country is stirring up trouble by sending weapons and fighters into neighboring countries, other countries can join together and enact a policy of containment, to isolate the rogue country and keep it from causing chaos outside its borders. In a nuclear reactor, the containment system is the back-up system that's supposed to keep dangerous radiation from leaking out into the atmosphere or water when there's an accident. WORD FAMILYcontain: contained, container, containing, containment, contains+/contained: self-contained/container: containerful, containerise, containerize, containers/containerize: containerized USAGE EXAMPLESThe successful containment of an epidemic—a public-health triumph—would likewise impede vaccine development. The New Yorker(Aug 15, 2016) Containment of communism became the organizing principle of U.S. foreign policy for the next four decades, benefiting from broad bipartisanship consensus on the question. Salon(Dec 07, 2016) They say the wastewater was confined to a containment area and cleaned up. Washington Times(Dec 02, 2016) 1n the act of containing; keeping something from spreading the containment of the AIDS epidemic the containment of the rebellion Hypo|Hyper ring containment a strategy of defense in cases of bioterrorism; vaccination only of people exposed and others who are in contact with them restraint the act of controlling by restraining someone or something 2n (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor Hyper system instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity 3n 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 Hyper policy a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group |
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