Injunction
noun
An official order from a court that demands something to be done or stopped.
The company filed an injunction to stop the labour union's strike.
Often appears as...
- file an injunction
- issue an injunction
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Formal
noun
A warning or order to do something.
The head teacher gave an injunction to the students to keep the school clean.
Often appears as...
- give an injunction
- issue an injunction
Usage tips
Formal
noun
An official order from a court that demands something to be done or stopped.
The company filed an injunction to stop the labour union's strike.
Often appears as...
- file an injunction
- issue an injunction
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A warning or order to do something.
The head teacher gave an injunction to the students to keep the school clean.
Often appears as...
- give an injunction
- issue an injunction
Usage tips
Formal
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Pro Tip 1/3Legally Binding
Injunctions require action or restraint and are enforceable by law.
The court's injunction forced the company to halt production.
Pro Tip 2/3Court Authority
An injunction is a powerful tool used by courts to maintain order.
The judge issued an injunction to prevent evidence tampering.
Pro Tip 3/3Immediate Effect
Injunctions often require immediate action and can't be delayed.
The environmental injunction stopped the tree cutting immediately.
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banedictembargointerdictionorderprohibitoryrestraintveto
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Kelli Swazey: Life that...
They are symbolically fed and cared for, and the family at this time will begin a number of ritual injunctions, which communicates to the wider community around them that one of their members is undergoing the transition from this life into the afterlife
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Kelli Swazey: Life that...
They are symbolically fed and cared for, and the family at this time will begin a number of ritual injunctions, which communicates to the wider community around them that one of their members is undergoing the transition from this life into the afterlife
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Christine and the Queens
French Musician
The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
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Jeremy Clarkson
English Journalist
You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.
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Ian Hislop
Welsh Editor
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
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Ian Hacking
Canadian Philosopher
Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.
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F. Lee Bailey
American Lawyer
I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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Greg Boyle
American Clergyman
At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.
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Abdolkarim Soroush
Iranian Philosopher
A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
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George McGovern
American Politician
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.
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Christine and the Queens
French Musician
The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.
Quote examples
Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
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Jeremy Clarkson
English Journalist
You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.
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Ian Hislop
Welsh Editor
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
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Ian Hacking
Canadian Philosopher
Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.
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F. Lee Bailey
American Lawyer
I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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Greg Boyle
American Clergyman
At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.
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Abdolkarim Soroush
Iranian Philosopher
A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
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George McGovern
American Politician
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.
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