n.
1.a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully
2.(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
3.(military) the act of containing something or someone
Idiom of the Day
not hurt a flea
to not harm anything or anyone (not even a tiny insect)
My mother would not hurt a flea and she is very kind to everyone who she meets.
