wire off

verb

To separate or close off by installing a wire barricade or fence, as around the perimeter.

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Meanings

verbwire off (third-person singular simple present wires off, present participle wiring off, simple past and past participle wired off)

present singular third person wires off · participle present wiring off · participle past wired off · past wired off

  1. To separate or close off by installing a wire barricade or fence, as around the perimeter.

    It was worthless land on the north edge of the chalk country, and he got a large tract of it, which he wired off.

    1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed
  2. datedTo send (a message) by wire.
  3. potteryTo separate and remove (a form) from a mass of clay using a cutting wire.
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APA

wire off. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wire%20off

MLA

“wire off.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wire%20off. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wire off,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wire%20off.

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