WordNet: containment
a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
- hypernym policy
containment
- (englanti) contain (derivationally related)
- (suomi) patoamispolitiikka (synonyymi)
- (suomi) laajenemispyrkimysten estäminen (synonyymi)