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enjoinment

enjoinment

9.9
A court order that stops someone from doing a particular activity
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈdʒɔɪnmənt/
  • Formal
translation icon : orden judicial
  • The enjoinment barred the defendant from making any public statements during the trial.

Examples

  • The court issued an enjoinment to prevent the company from dumping waste in the river.

  • After reviewing the case, the judge decided to impose an enjoinment on the construction project.

  • Whatever such enjoinments mean, certain implications seem evident.

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

injunction
vsenjoinment
  • Formal
78 8.0

An order from a court that stops someone from doing something

is the act or state of being legally prohibited by such an order
cease and desist order
vsenjoinment
  • Formal
4 7.9

A court order telling someone to stop a certain action

is usually a judicial order issued by courts rather than any administrative notice

Antonyms

permission
∞ 1.0

Official approval that lets you do something

Surface Forms

enjoinment singular
enjoinments plural

Morphology

enjoinment = enjoin (transparent) = enjoin + ment

Formed by the verb 'enjoin' plus the productive nominalizing suffix '-ment'; the meaning 'the act or result of enjoining' is directly derivable though chiefly used in legal contexts.

Etymology

The word enjoinment comes from enjoin ('to order') plus -ment, and enjoin comes from an old Latin root related to join meaning 'to put on' or 'attach'. So, an enjoinment is a court order that is 'placed on' a person or group to make them stop or do something.