Usually means: Enclosures for storing or transporting items.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word containers:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. containers: Merriam-Webster
  2. containers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. containers: Vocabulary.com
  4. Containers, container's, containers: Wordnik
  5. containers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. containers: Wiktionary
  7. containers: Dictionary.com
  8. containers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Containers: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Containers: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Containers: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Containers: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See container as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (container)

noun:  Someone who contains; something that contains.
noun:  An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
noun:  (transport) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.
noun:  (by extension) Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
noun:  (computing)
noun:  (file format) A file format that can hold various types of data.
noun:  (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
noun:  (graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
noun:  (Java programming language) A web container.
noun:  (cloud computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.
noun:  (crosswording) A type of cryptic device where one word is inserted into another.
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