hors

/oʁ/

outside, except

Je vais rester hors de la maison jusqu'à ce soir.

I will stay outside the house until tonight.

formal

Outside, not included, or except for something

Hors de France, il n'a pas de crédit.

Outside of France, he has no credit.

Often used to indicate exclusion or something being outside a specified scope.

Engineering

technical

Off, not operating (in the context of machinery or systems)

Le système est hors service pour maintenance.

The system is off for maintenance.

Used in technical contexts to denote something is not in operation.

Collocations

hors deoutside of, except forhors serviceout of service

outlaw, outside the law

Remember, 'hors' often implies exclusion or a location outside a defined boundary.

From Old French, ultimately from Latin 'foris', meaning outside

Versatile preposition indicating exclusion or physical location outside something.

hors

outside, except

preposition

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais