INJUNCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does injunction mean? 

• INJUNCTION (noun)
  The noun INJUNCTION has 2 senses:

1. a formal command or admonition

2. (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity

  Familiarity information: INJUNCTION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INJUNCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal command or admonition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("injunction" is a kind of...):

bid; bidding; command; dictation (an authoritative direction or instruction to do something)

Derivation:

enjoin (give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cease and desist order; enjoining; enjoinment; injunction

Context example:

injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order

Hypernyms ("injunction" 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 "injunction"):

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)

 Context examples 

An injunction of secresy had been among Mr. Weston's parting words.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“And see that you serve no more slops,” was his parting injunction.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I tried, on her injunction, to fix it, and to hear something of what was going on there, but quite in vain.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She carried out every one of my injunctions to the letter, and certainly without her co-operation you would not have that paper in your coat-pocket.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Van Helsing had seen her, he went out for a walk, leaving me in charge, with strict injunctions that I was not to leave her for a moment.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Henry was not able to obey his father's injunction of remaining wholly at Northanger in attendance on the ladies, during his absence in London, the engagements of his curate at Woodston obliging him to leave them on Saturday for a couple of nights.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Jennings, though forced, on examination, to acknowledge a temporary revival, tried to keep her young friend from indulging a thought of its continuance;—and Elinor, conning over every injunction of distrust, told herself likewise not to hope.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I remembered Holmes’s injunction.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction—and a moment's consideration making her also sensible that it would be wisest to get it over as soon and as quietly as possible, she sat down again and tried to conceal, by incessant employment the feelings which were divided between distress and diversion.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)