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Definition of: containment
(kən·tān′mənt) noun
1. Mil. The engagement of the enemy so that he is unable to extricate forces for use elsewhere.
2. In international politics, the forestalling or offsetting, by political and economic policy, of territorial or ideological extension by an inimical power.
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