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How to pronounce injunction in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment
Type of ban, prohibition, proscription
Has types mandatory injunction, permanent injunction, temporary injunction, interlocutory injunction, final injunction
Derivation enjoin


injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order.
Type Words
Type of bid, bidding, command, dictation
Derivation enjoin

Examples of injunction

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Pratt issued a preliminary injunction barring the policy, which began last July.
From the courier-journal.com
Hicks and Gillett might seek an injunction blocking the deal from going through.
From the online.wsj.com
This injunction could be stayed or not be stayed and it probably will be stayed.
From the sacbee.com
The fact that Giggs had taken out the injunction soon leaked on to the internet.
From the telegraph.co.uk
During a Commons debate an MP named a footballer who had obtained an injunction.
From the guardian.co.uk
Goodwin obtained the wide-ranging injunction against the Sun newspaper in March.
From the guardian.co.uk
An alternative would be a court injunction allowing them to reopen or stay open.
From the dailynews.com
The vendors'motion for an injunction aimed to get them back to work before then.
From the news-journalonline.com
Education and support in the affected areas is vital for the injunction to work.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • A formal command or admonition
  • (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"
  • An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order, whereby a party is required to do, or to refrain from doing, certain acts. ...
  • The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting; That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction; 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 ...
  • (injunctional) Being or pertaining to an injunction
  • (injunctive) A verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect; A verbal lexeme in injunctive mood
  • (Injunctions) Obtaining the Identity of Defendants in English Litigation
  • A legal action which forbids a party defendant from doing some act; it requires a person to whom it is directed to refrain from doing a particular thing.
  • An order issued by the court prohibiting a person from or requiring him/her to perform some act.