cordon sanitaire
- a barrier restraining free movement of people or goods, so as to keep a disease, infection, etc. from spreading from one locality into another
- a belt of countries serving to isolate another country and check its aggressiveness or lessen its influence
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(kôr-dôɴˌ sä-nē-târˈ)
noun pl. cor·dons sa·ni·taires (kôr-dôɴˌ sä-nē-târˈ) - A barrier designed to prevent a disease or other undesirable condition from spreading.
- A chain of buffer states organized around a nation considered ideologically dangerous or potentially hostile.
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