Term: containment: 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
Candidate hypernym: policy: a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group → 1
Candidate hypernym: pruning knife: a knife with a curved or hooked blade → 0
Candidate hypernym: acrobatics: the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft → 0
Candidate hypernym: doubly transitive verb: a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object → 0
Candidate hypernym: fall: a sudden decline in strength or number or importance → 0
Candidate hypernym: ganger: the foreman of a work gang → 0
Candidate hypernym: wilson's snipe: American snipe → 0
Candidate hypernym: goddess: a female deity → 0
Candidate hypernym: carpet beetle: small beetle whose larvae are household pests feeding on woolen fabrics → 0
Candidate hypernym: nurse shark: small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia → 0
Candidate hypernym: head: (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head → 0