in|junc|tion

in|junc|tion
in|junc|tion «ihn JUHNGK shuhn», noun.
1. a command; order: »

He obeyed his mother's injunction to hurry straight home. Injunctions of secrecy did not prevent the news from leaking out.

SYNONYM(S): behest.
2. a formal order from a law court ordering a person or group to do, or not to do, something: »

The owner got an injunction prohibiting people from lighting fires on the vacant lot next to his house. Sheriff's deputies arrived to enforce a court injunction against mass picketing (Newsweek).

3. the act of commanding or authoritatively directing.
[< Late Latin injunctiō, -ōnis < Latin injungere enjoin < in- in + jungere join]

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