Cordon Sanitaire Definition

kôr-dôɴ sä-nē-târ
cordons-sanitaires
noun
A barrier restraining free movement of people or goods, so as to keep a disease, infection, etc. from spreading from one locality into another.
Webster's New World
A chain of buffer states organized around a ideologically dangerous or potentially hostile nation.
American Heritage
A belt of countries serving to isolate another country and check its aggressiveness or lessen its influence.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cordon Sanitaire

Noun

Singular:
cordon sanitaire
Plural:
cordons-sanitaires

Origin of Cordon Sanitaire

  • French quarantine line cordon line sanitaire sanitary

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French cordon sanitaire.

    From Wiktionary

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