noun, verb
noun a line or ring of police officers, soldiers, etc. guarding sth or stopping people from entering or leaving a place:
Demonstrators tried to break through the police cordon.
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
cordon sth<->off to stop people from getting into an area by surrounding it with police, soldiers, etc:
Police cordoned off the area until the bomb was made safe.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cordon is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is cordon a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cordon is tagged as verb.
Does cordon appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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