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n. 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 n. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioa…

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  1. n. 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 n. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor n. the act of containing; keeping something from spreading