cordon
noun/ˈkɔːdn/
/ˈkɔːrdn/
- a line or ring of police officers, soldiers, etc. guarding something or stopping people from entering or leaving a place
- Demonstrators broke through the police cordon.
Extra ExamplesTopics Law and justicec2- Police officers threw a cordon around his car to protect him.
- The crowd managed to break through the police cordon.
- The security forces have formed a cordon around the apartment.
- There is a tight security cordon around the area.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- tight
- police
- security
- …
- form
- throw
- break through
- …
- prevent something
- cordon around
- cordon round
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting an ornamental braid): from Italian cordone, augmentative of corda, and French cordon, diminutive of corde, both from Latin chorda ‘string, rope’, from Greek khordē ‘gut, string of a musical instrument’.Definitions on the go
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