containment
C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The provision of a safe, boundaried presence that helps a distressed person feel held and managed.
A calm, consistent approach offered the containment she needed during moments of overwhelming anxiety.
Business noun
The immediate action taken to isolate defective goods and stop them reaching customers.
As soon as the leak was found, containment meant pulling every affected lot from distribution.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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