Usually means: Restriction of something to area.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word containment:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. containment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. containment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. containment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. containment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. containment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Containment, containment: Wordnik
  7. containment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. containment: Wiktionary
  9. containment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. containment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. containment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. containment: Dictionary.com
  13. Containment (TV series), Containment (computer programming), Containment (disambiguation), Containment (film), Containment (foreign policy), Containment (miniseries), Containment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Containment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. containment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. containment: Rhymezone
  17. Containment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. containment: Free Dictionary
  19. containment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. containment: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. containment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. containment: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The state of being contained.
noun:  (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable, countable) Something contained.
noun:  (uncountable, countable) A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
noun:  (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
noun:  (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.

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