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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 con·tain·ment /kənˈtenmənt/
 包含;抑制;牽制

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·tain·ment n.
 1. That which is contained; the extent; the substance. [Obs.]
    The containment of a rich man's estate.   --Fuller.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 containment
      n 1: a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check
           the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force
           it to negotiate pecefully; "containment of communist
           expansion was a central principle of United States'
           foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
      2: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental
         release of radioactive material from a reactor
      3: (military) the act of containing something or someone;
         keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the
         containment of the rebel forces"