Noun
That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China? Samuel P. Huntington
God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts-God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known. Carl Jung
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. Saul Williams
Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works. Peter Shumlin
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war. Robert Dallek
the containment of the AIDS epidemic Source: Internet