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单词 containment
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containment
noun[U]
uk
/kənˈteɪn.mənt/us
/kənˈteɪn.mənt/
theactofcontrollingorlimitingsomething or someoneharmful:
控制；抑制；阻止
Containment ofcrowdviolencewas the police'smainconcern.阻止群体暴力事件的发生是警方最关注的事。
Thespreadingdiseaseoverwhelmedallattemptsat containment.
politicsspecialized
anattempttokeepanother country'spoliticalpowerwithinlimitswithout having awarwith them:
（对他国政治力量的）遏制
Thegovernmentispursuingapolicyof containment.政府在奉行遏制政策。
More examples
  • Rapid containment ofemergingdiseasesisvitalinordertoavoidalargescaleepidemic.
  • For now, theemphasisis oncostcontainment.
  • Manytraditionalcontainmentmeasuresare nolongereffectivegiven people’sexpectationsof morefreedomofmovement.
  • Anthrax wasfoundin threeplacesoutsidethe containmentlab.
  • Headvocatesdiplomaticengagementover containment orconfrontation.
  • Hescaleddownmilitaryaction,followingastrategyof containment.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Limiting and restricting
  • anti-libertarian
  • boundary
  • boxsomeone/somethingin
  • chain
  • chainsomeonetosomething
  • cramp
  • curb
  • curtail
  • curtailment
  • damage limitation
  • debilitating
  • hamstring
  • limit
  • limitation
  • limiting
  • localize
  • non-exempt
  • straitjacket
  • tempered
  • tiesomeonedown
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Medicines & drugs: preventing infection
International relations: international politics & government
(Definition ofcontainmentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
containment
noun[U]
uk
/kənˈteɪn.mənt/us
/kənˈteɪn.mənt/
theactofcontrollingorlimitingsomething or someoneharmful
控制；抑制；阻止
Containment ofcrowdviolencewas the police'smainconcern.阻止群体暴力事件的发生是警方最关注的事。
politicsspecialized
anattempttokeepanother country'spoliticalpowerwithinlimitswithout having awarwith them
（对他国政治力量的）遏制
Thegovernmentispursuingapolicyof containment.政府在奉行遏制政策。

containment| American Dictionary

containment
noun[U]
us
/kənˈteɪn·mənt/
politics & government
Containment was also apolicyof theUnitedStatesand othercountriestopreventanincreaseinSovietinfluenceafterWorldWar II.
(Definition ofcontainmentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontainment

containment
Extensive redundancies are avoided without losing the necessary degree of self-containmentof each of the chapters.
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Any enclosure has, in principle, a pair of complementary capabilities:containmentand exclusion.
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Prisons are sites that seed isolation, conformity, order, andcontainmentof body and mind.
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In both cases, image "f" range "f" codomain "f", with at least one of the containments being equality.
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Instead of cutting benefits or coverage, costcontainmenthas focused overwhelmingly on controlling fees and overall spending.
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Looking at events in individual countries, the conclusion that costcontainmenthas prompted public backlash is considerably strengthened.
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Two main policy directions stand out - cost-containmentand activation.
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Cost-containmentis only one - if a very important - policy goal in health care.
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Another manifestation is thatcontainmentrelations are respected so that interiors map onto interiors while exteriors map onto exteriors.
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Public participation initiatives are sites in which processes of co-option andcontainmentmay be present.
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More recent studies have been limited by the high degree ofcontainmentneeded to handle this virus.
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Our study also suggests the need to re-examine the health sector in terms of health financing and health-care costcontainment.
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The music works to position us in terms of this diegeticcontainment.
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Moreover, in doing so - in escaping or exposing its own 'strategies ofcontainment' - narrative foregrounds that which it has, superficially, suppressed.
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Containmentand transcendence are experiential qualities associated with the image, and can be regarded as a companion concept to enclosure/ouverture.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithcontainment

containment

These are words often used in combination withcontainment.

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containment building
The relatively small leakage remained within the containment building.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
containment structure
A blast room includes three of the four components of a blast cabinet: thecontainmentstructure, the abrasive blasting system and the dust collector.
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Wikipedia
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containment system
Such a lengthy time span could provide a considerable challenge to the integrity of thecontainmentsystem.
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