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    CEASE AND DESIST ORDER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activityplay

    Example:

    injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order

    Synonyms:

    cease and desist order; enjoining; enjoinment; injunction

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("cease and desist order" is a kind of...):

    ban; prohibition; proscription (a decree that prohibits something)

    Domain category:

    jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cease and desist order"):

    mandatory injunction (injunction requiring the performance of some specific act)

    final injunction; permanent injunction (injunction issued on completion of a trial)

    interlocutory injunction; temporary injunction (injunction issued during a trial to maintain the status quo or preserve the subject matter of the litigation until the trial is over)

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