court order

noun

: an order issuing from a competent court that requires a party to do or abstain from doing a specified act

Examples of court order in a Sentence

He received a court order barring him from entering the building.

He is barred by court order from entering the building.

The town is under court order to fix the problem.

Recent Examples on the Web

In early May, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled the city was in contempt of court orders to address violence and the use of force in the system. —Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 21 June 2025

The temporary court order stays in effect until the case is fully decided on the merits. —Alexandra Koch , Bill Mears, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2025

What To Know The lawsuit seeks a court order mandating the state to adopt safer card technology and compensate victims of SNAP fraud. —Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025

Authorities later acknowledged an administrative error in his removal because of the court order barring deportation. —Bart Jansen, USA Today, 14 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1650, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for court order

• camcorder
• disorder
• recorder
• reorder
• suborder
• transborder
• boarder
• border
• corder
• warder