isolate
/ˈaɪsəleɪt/ verb [T]Definition
› to separate something or someone from other things or people with which they are joined are mixed, or to keep them separate: We need to isolate the problem with our product distribution.
› POLITICS to keep a company or country from doing business in the usual way: Despite American efforts to isolate the country, Europeans still travel and trade there freely.isolate sb/yourself from sth There is no way you can isolate yourself from politics unless you isolate yourself from society.
(Definition of isolate verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Our dictionaries
Browse the Thesaurus
Browse the Dictionary
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
