n05986948
| type | n |
| lex_filenum | 09 |
| def | 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 |
| examples | containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975 |
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| Hypernym | policy |
| Derivationally related form | containment → contain |
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| Hyponym | policy |
| Derivationally related form | contain → containment |
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