gag order

1. 1.

   a court order restricting information or comment by the participants involved in a lawsuit

   “imposing a gag order on members of the press violates the First Amendment”

   Broadercourt order

   law

Questions about gag order

What does gag order mean?

gag order means "a court order restricting information or comment by the participants involved in a lawsuit".

Is gag order a common word?

gag order is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.