Definitions for injunction

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injunction in·junc·tion

Spelling: [in-juhngk-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪnˈdʒʌŋk ʃən/

Injunction is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in injunction (ciijnnnotu).

Definitions for injunction

noun

1. Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
2. an act or instance of enjoining.
3. a command; order; admonition:

Origin of injunction

1520-30; Late Latin injunctiōn- (stem of injunctiō), equivalent to Latin injunct(us) (past participle of injungere to join to; see enjoin) + -iōn- Examples for injunction

There is the constant use of the Quranic injunction: “To kill one innocent person is like killing a civilization.”

In spite of my injunction he mumbled something, and I was not unwilling to hear it.

Mammy left me with the injunction to call on her "ef I didn't have nowhar else to go."

A friendly federal judge was besought to stop me by an injunction.

It is, after all, only reviewing a decline of a stay of an injunction to stop withholding licenses.

The injunction, she argued, only applies to these four plaintiffs—not to anyone else.

However, he yielded to Cardinal Boccanera's injunction and again bowed.

They prevailed last August, obtaining—follow me here—an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of those provisions.

The Hippocratic injunction to “first, do no harm,” should be scrupulously respected.

He did not even look up in obedience to the old man's injunction.