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injunction

noun

1 injunction

A formal command or admonition.

Roget 630: requirement, need, wants, necessities; necessaries, necessaries of life; stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death.    needfulness, ... show more

Roget 761: prohibition, inhibition; veto, disallowance; interdict, interdiction; injunction, estoppel [Law]; embargo, ban, taboo, proscription; index expurgatorius [Lat.]; ... show more

Roget 695: advice, counsel, adhortation; word to the wise; suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy; advisement.    exhortation etc. (persuasion) 615; ... show more

Roget 741: command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod.    despatch, ... show more

Dutch: bevelen

2 injunction

law A judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity:
— Injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order.

synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment.

Dutch: sommatie, dwangbevel, straatverbod


Moby thesaurus: Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, admonition, arrest, arrestation, ban, bar, barring, behest, bench warrant, bidding, blockade, boycott, capias, caveat, charge, check, circumscription, command ... show more.

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