Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cease_and_desist_order

1 sense of cease and desist order

Sense 1
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")
       => prohibition, ban, proscription -- (a decree that prohibits something)