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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Contain

Hi.
What does 'contain' mean in:
"NATO was created in 1949, ostensibly to contain the Soviet Union in the first years of the Cold War era"

Thanks in advance!
  

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It means "to limit (the expansion) of", that is, to put put the Soviet Union in a virtual "container" to limit what it could do.
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