In the Sierra Nevada, firefighters achieved 41 percent containment of a forest fire that has shut down Yosemite Valley and other adjacent portions of Yosemite National Park at what is normally the height of summer tourism.
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Containment
//kənˈteɪnmənt//
Synonyms for "containment" (63 found)
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Translations
59 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- въздържане noun (state of being contained)
- сдържане noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
Catalan
4 entries- contenció noun (state of being contained)
- contenció noun (state of containing)
- contenció noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
- contenció noun (physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of dangerous materials)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 圍堵 /围堵 noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
- 遏制 noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
Danish
2 entries- inddæmning noun (state of containing)
- inddæmningspolitik noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
Estonian
1 entries- piiramine noun (state of containing)
Finnish
4 entries- eristyminen noun (state of being contained)
- eristysjärjestelmä noun (physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of dangerous materials)
- eristäminen noun (state of containing)
- hillitseminen noun (state of containing)
French
2 entries- confinement noun (state of being contained)
- confinement noun (state of containing)
German
4 entries- Eindämmung noun (state of containing)
- Eindämmungspolitik noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
- Sicherheitsbehälter noun (physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of dangerous materials)
- Sicherheitsumschließung noun (physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of dangerous materials)
Italian
2 entries- contenimento noun (state of being contained)
- contenimento noun (state of containing)
Portuguese
2 entries- contenção noun (state of being contained)
- contenção noun (state of containing)
Russian
1 entries- сде́рживание noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
Spanish
4 entries- contención noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
- contención noun (physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of dangerous materials)
- contenimiento noun (state of being contained)
- contenimiento noun (state of containing)
Swedish
4 entries- begränsning noun (state of being contained)
- hejdande noun (state of being contained)
- hejdande noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
- indämning noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
Ukrainian
1 entries- стри́мування noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
Vietnamese
4 entries- chính sách ngăn chặn noun (policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power)
- sự bao gồm noun (state of containing)
- sự bao hàm noun (state of containing)
- sự chứa đựng noun (state of containing)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The World Health Organization is urging countries affected by the coronavirus to enact containment measures as the best way to slow down the spread of this deadly disease.
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News that Nicola Zingaretti, the first leading Italian politician confirmed to have contracted COVID-19, came amid mounting fears that the government's containment policies, the most far-reaching in Europe, were not working to halt the spread of the virus from northern Italy.
Source: tatoeba (8602715)
Public health officials say that while the health care system is holding up, it is under extraordinary strain that will likely worsen if drastic containment measures announced Sunday by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte don't start having an effect.
Source: tatoeba (8604704)
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