injunction

[ in-juhngk-shuhn ]

noun

1. Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
2. an act or instance of enjoining.
3. a command; order; admonition:

   the injunctions of the Lord.

injunction

/ ɪnˈdʒʌŋkʃən /

noun

1. law an instruction or order issued by a court to a party to an action, esp to refrain from some act, such as causing a nuisance
2. a command, admonition, etc
3. the act of enjoining

injunction

1. A court order that either compels or restrains an act by an individual, organization, or government official. In labor – management relations, injunctions have been used to prevent workers from going on strike .

Derived Forms

• inˈjunctive, adjective
• inˈjunctively, adverb

Other Words From

• in·junctive adjective
• in·junctive·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of injunction¹

1520–30; < Late Latin injunctiōn- (stem of injunctiō ), equivalent to Latin injunct ( us ) (past participle of injungere to join to; enjoin ) + -iōn- -ion

Word History and Origins

Origin of injunction¹

C16: from Late Latin injunctiō, from Latin injungere to enjoin

Example Sentences

Federal District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers heard arguments this morning regarding Epic's request for a temporary injunction in its case against Apple.

From Ars Technica

Separately, pending further review, a federal appeals court on Sunday stayed a lower court’s injunction that would allow mail ballots in Wisconsin to count if postmarked by Election Day and received up to six days later.

From Washington Post

The judge refused to grant an injunction against a November deadline for a sale.

From Fortune

In granting the preliminary injunction, the judge said the plaintiffs were likely to succeed at a trial.

From Fortune

“I will issue a preliminary injunction essentially in the form presented by the states,” Bastian said in court.

From Washington Post

They prevailed last August, obtaining—follow me here—an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of those provisions.

From The Daily Beast

The injunction, she argued, only applies to these four plaintiffs—not to anyone else.

From The Daily Beast

It is, after all, only reviewing a decline of a stay of an injunction to stop withholding licenses.

From The Daily Beast

The fact that some prescriptive rules are valuable does not mean that every grammatical injunction should be obeyed.

From The Daily Beast

The winning injunction prevents the sale from taking place and almost ensures the lawsuit will go to trial.

From The Daily Beast

Now, quite alone and safe, she asked herself whether she had been a fool to obey Nigel's injunction and to trust her own beauty.

From Project Gutenberg

But a trade dispute of long standing was not settled, even in the seventeenth century, by a royal injunction.

From Project Gutenberg

According to Walpole, an injunction was applied for to prevent the publication of the letters.

From Project Gutenberg

Up, and this morning comes Mr. Clerke, and tells me that the Injunction against Trice is dismissed again, which troubles me much.

From Project Gutenberg

Christianity, not satisfied with recommending the love of our neighbor, superadds the injunction of loving our enemies.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• admonition
• ban
• embargo
• instruction
• mandate
• prohibition
• ruling
• writ