- injunction, enjoining, enjoinment, cease and desist order - (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"
--1 is a kind of prohibition, ban, proscription
--1 has particulars:mandatory injunction; permanent injunction, final injunction; temporary injunction, interlocutory injunction Derived form: verb enjoin1