cease and desist order

1. 1.

   (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”

   Synonymsinjunctionenjoiningenjoinment

   Broaderprohibition

   Narrowermandatory injunctionpermanent injunctiontemporary injunction

   law

Questions about cease and desist order

What does cease and desist order mean?

cease and desist order means "(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity".

What is another word for cease and desist order?

Close synonyms include injunction, enjoining, enjoinment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cease and desist order a common word?

cease and desist order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.