cease-and-desist order

[ sees-uhn-di-zist, -sist ]

noun
  1. an order by a government agency to a person or corporation to terminate a business practice found by the agency to be illegal or unfair.

Origin of cease-and-desist order

1
First recorded in 1925–30

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