Synonyms for containment

Noun

1. containment, policy

usage: 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. containment, system

usage: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

3. containment, restraint

usage: (military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"