Usually means: Barrier to control or enclose.
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  1. cordon: Merriam-Webster
  2. cordon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cordon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cordon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cordon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cordon, cordon: Wordnik
  7. cordon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cordon, cordon: Wiktionary
  9. cordon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cordon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cordon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cordon, cordon: Dictionary.com
  13. cordon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cordon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cordon (TV seres), Cordon (TV series), Cordon (disambiguation), Cordon (plant), Cordon, The Cordon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cordon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cordon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cordon: Rhymezone
  19. cordon, cordn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cordon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cordon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. cordon: FreeDictionary.org
  23. cordon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cordon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. cordon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cordon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cordon: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cordon: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cordon (offensive): Racial Slur Database

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CORDON (CORD), CORDON: French-English Wine Glossary
  2. Cordon: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See cordoned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic) A ribbon normally worn diagonally across the chest as a decoration or insignia of rank etc. [from 17th c.]
noun:  A line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it. [from 16th c.]
noun:  (cricket) The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman: the slips and gully. [from 20th c.]
noun:  (botany) A woody plant, such as a fruit tree, pruned and trained to grow as a single stem on a support. [from 19th c.]
verb:  Only used in cordon off
noun:  A surname.

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