cordon off

1. 1.

   divide by means of a rope

   “The police roped off the area where the crime occurred”

   Synonymsrope inrope off

   Broaderenclose

Questions about cordon off

What does cordon off mean?

cordon off means "divide by means of a rope".

What is another word for cordon off?

Close synonyms include rope in, rope off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cordon off a common word?

cordon off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.