Definition of cordon
1a : an ornamental cord or ribbon untied the cordon that fastened his cloakb : stringcourse
2a : a line of troops or of military posts enclosing an area to prevent passageb : a line of persons or objects around a person or place a cordon of police
3 : an espalier especially of a fruit tree trained as a single horizontal shoot or two diverging horizontal shoots in a single line
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Examples of cordon in a Sentence
A cordon of police kept protesters away from the building.
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Other eats at the Frontier Days Festival include Grande Jake's pork tacos and nachos, the Rack House's andouille sausage sandwiches and prime rib Cajun melt, and H.O.M.E. Bar's chicken cordon bleu and ice cream chimichangas, organizers said.
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At a checkpoint on a road into Iligan City, around 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Marawi, civilians on foot and on public transport line up to pass into the city cordon.
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On June 17, hundreds of people gathered at the police cordons in the public housing project of Lancaster West Estate to pay their respects and voice their concerns.
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Staff had begun arriving at the station in the morning but a police cordon was still in place.
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The station and the adjacent historic downtown area, packed with tourists and locals on a hot summer evening, was partly evacuated as police set up a security cordon, witnesses told Belgian media.
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A helicopter circled above the area as a large cordon was established to keep motorists and pedestrians away.
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A helicopter circled above the area as a large cordon was established to keep motorists and pedestrians away.
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A helicopter circled above the area as a large cordon was established to keep motorists and pedestrians away.
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Origin and Etymology of cordon
French, diminutive of corde cord
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Definition of cordon
transitive verb
: to form a protective or restrictive cordon (see 1cordon 2) around —usually used with off Police cordoned off the area around the crime scene.
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Police cordoned off the area as technicians collected evidence from the scene, which is near a Roman Catholic cathedral and a First United Methodist Church center.
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The block surrounding the home was temporarily cordoned off to incoming traffic.
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Crime scene tape that had cordoned off the West Park shooting scene earlier had been removed by shortly after sunrise.
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Earlier Friday, government forces cordoned off Arwani village in the south on a tip that at least two Kashmiri rebels were hiding there, said inspector-general of police Muneer Ahmed Khan.
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Following the incident, the station was closed and the area was cordoned off.
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Peter Haynes was arrested the morning of the shooting after officers noticed him trying to duck under the crime tape used to cordon off the area.
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But most of these theories have remained cordoned off from mainstream media; the Truthout story, for example, never circulated much beyond a few fringe web sites.
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The shooting occurred around 7:30 p.m. By about 8 p.m., police had cordoned off a small section of the complex, including a parking lot between two buildings.
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Origin and Etymology of cordon
see 1cordon
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playDefinition of cordon for English Language Learners
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: a line of people or objects that are placed around or in front of a person or place to keep people away
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