cordon
IPA: kˈɔrdʌn
noun
- (archaic) A ribbon normally worn diagonally across the chest as a decoration or insignia of rank etc. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- A line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- (cricket) The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman - the slips and gully. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- (botany) A woody plant, such as a fruit tree, pruned and trained to grow as a single stem on a support. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- A surname.
verb
- Only used in cordon off
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Examples of "cordon" in Sentences
- The town within the fort was cordoned by nine gates.
- This was the outer cordon limit that the police had set.
- The cordon is enforced through the use of police checkpoints.
- He was also promoted to Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile.
- In 1805 Moncey received the grand cordon of the legion of honor.
- Police then threw a cordon around the camp and killed the gunman.
- A police cordon blocked the square to the left of Old North Street.
- Inside the cordon were about fifty demonstrators and ten journalists.
- In 1805, the sergeant received the grand cordon of the legion of honor.
- He was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun by the government of Japan.
- In 1987, he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers.
- A cordon is a line of men, ships, or forts, so stationed as to prevent people from going into, or coming out of the place.
- Also a cordon is not legal territiry to be defended at all costs, it only acts as a cordon with the consent of the public to acknowledge it as such.
- A cordon is not utilised with consent, it is a use of force and is perfectly legal and can be enforced by police officers, whether others consent or not.
- And the cordon, the cordon is the security zone outside the city, will also scarf up or kill many fleeing because that's what they're trying to do at that time.
- Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Greek riot police clashed with hundreds of people protesting austerity measures who tried to break a cordon outside Parliament.
- This strategy focussed then, as it does today, on the entrenchment and perpetuation of apartheid within South Africa, the colonisation of Namibia and the maintenance of a so-called cordon sanitaire around the borders of the apartheid empire.
- He disagreed withy my use of the word cordon, replying: "It's not necessarily to keep away from them, but to keep them away from us," adding that extra space for reporters give us room to roam, and ensures nobody inadvertently encroaches on that space.
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