Significado de containment en inglés

containment

noun [ U ]

/kənˈteɪn.mənt/ us

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the act of controlling or limiting something or someone harmful:

Containment of crowd violence was the police's main concern.

The spreading disease overwhelmed all attempts at containment.

politics specialized

an attempt to keep another country's political power within limits without having a war with them:

The government is pursuing a policy of containment.

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Rapid containment of emerging diseases is vital in order to avoid a large scale epidemic.
For now, the emphasis is on cost containment.
Many traditional containment measures are no longer effective given people’s expectations of more freedom of movement.
Anthrax was found in three places outside the containment lab.
He advocates diplomatic engagement over containment or confrontation.
He scaled down military action, following a strategy of containment.

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(Definición de containment del Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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containment

noun [ U ]

/kənˈteɪn·mənt/

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politics & government

Containment was also a policy of the United States and other countries to prevent an increase in Soviet influence after World War II.

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Ejemplos de containment

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Extensive redundancies are avoided without losing the necessary degree of self-containment of each of the chapters.

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Any enclosure has, in principle, a pair of complementary capabilities: containment and exclusion.

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Prisons are sites that seed isolation, conformity, order, and containment of body and mind.

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In both cases, image "f" range "f" codomain "f", with at least one of the containments being equality.

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Instead of cutting benefits or coverage, cost containment has focused overwhelmingly on controlling fees and overall spending.

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Looking at events in individual countries, the conclusion that cost containment has prompted public backlash is considerably strengthened.

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Two main policy directions stand out - cost-containment and activation.

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Cost-containment is only one - if a very important - policy goal in health care.

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Another manifestation is that containment relations are respected so that interiors map onto interiors while exteriors map onto exteriors.

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Public participation initiatives are sites in which processes of co-option and containment may be present.

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More recent studies have been limited by the high degree of containment needed to handle this virus.

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Our study also suggests the need to re-examine the health sector in terms of health financing and health-care cost containment.

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The music works to position us in terms of this diegetic containment.

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Moreover, in doing so - in escaping or exposing its own 'strategies of containment' - narrative foregrounds that which it has, superficially, suppressed.

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Containment and transcendence are experiential qualities associated with the image, and can be regarded as a companion concept to enclosure/ouverture.

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containment building

The relatively small leakage remained within the containment building.

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containment structure

A blast room includes three of the four components of a blast cabinet: the containment structure, the abrasive blasting system and the dust collector.

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containment system

Such a lengthy time span could provide a considerable challenge to the integrity of the containment system.

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