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ENJOINMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity
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 ("enjoinment" 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 "enjoinment"):
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)
Derivation:
enjoin (issue an injunction)
