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How to say: containment
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Containment
Syllables
containment
US accent
/kəntˈeɪnmənt/
UK accent
/kəntˈeɪnmənt/
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Definition
Definition — 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
e.g. “containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975”