containment
英[kən'teɪnm(ə)nt]
美[kən'tenmənt]
- n. 包含；牵制；容量；密闭度；抑制, 牵制；牵制 [遏制] 政策
英英释意
- 1. a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully;
- "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
- 2. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
- 3. (military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading;
- "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"