'Injunction' definitions:
Definition of 'injunction'
(from WordNet)
noun
A formal command or admonition
noun
(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" [syn: injunction, enjoining, enjoinment, cease and desist order]
Definition of 'Injunction'
From: GCIDE
- Injunction \In*junc"tion\, n. [L. injunctio, fr. injungere, injunctum, to join into, to enjoin. See Enjoin.]
- 1. The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction. [1913 Webster]
- For still they knew, and ought to have still remembered, The high injunction, not to taste that fruit. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Necessary as the injunctions of lawful authority. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some cases, under statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ. [1913 Webster]
- Note: It is more generally used as a preventive than as a restorative process, although by no means confined to the former. --Wharton. --Daniell. --Story. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'injunction'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- admonition,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- behest,
- bench warrant,
- bidding,
- blockade,
- boycott,
- capias,
- caveat,
- charge,
- check,
- circumscription,
- command,
- commission,
- constraint,
- contraband,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- death warrant,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- deceleration,
- demarcation,
- denial,
- dictate,
- direction,
- directive,
- disallowance,
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- embargo,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- exhortation,
- fieri facias,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- habere facias possessionem,
- hindrance,
- inadmissibility,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- instruction,
- interdict,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- law,
- legal restraint,
- lockout,
- mandamus,
- mandate,
- mandatory injunction,
- mittimus,
- monopoly,
- narrowing,
- nisi prius,
- no-no,
- nonadmission,
- notice,
- notification,
- omission,
- order,
- precept,
- preclusion,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- prevention,
- process,
- prohibition,
- Prohibition Party,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- rationing,
- refusal,
- rein,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- repression,
- repudiation,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retardation,
- retrenchment,
- ruling,
- ruling out,
- search warrant,
- self-control,
- slowing down,
- statute,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- tariff wall,
- teaching,
- thought control,
- Volstead Act,
- warning,
- warrant,
- warrant of arrest,
- warrant of attorney,
- word,
- writ,
- zoning,
- zoning laws