Definition of "cordoning" []

• Present participle of cordon. (verb)

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• "Quick action by the Agriculture Department in cordoning off the diseased area made the wheat crop for 1969 (the year the Apollo 9 flew) the largest in our history."
• "Councilwoman Kerry Collins-Leggett said a policy could include provisions such as cordoning off areas where alcohol is used and requiring police to be there when the alcohol is sold."
• "I asked her about it in the schoolyard, the rough white bandage covering the accident of her marriage, tapes cordoning off the scene of the crime."