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.
That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
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(military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"
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(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
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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 1
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That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
Containment
The containment of a rich man's estate.
That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
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