cease and desist

phrase

formal

: to stop (doing something) immediately

The company was ordered by the court to cease and desist from selling the photographs.

Examples of cease and desist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety. — Jay Peters, The Verge, 11 July 2026

Thomas said the cease and desist orders were also for the benefit of the businesses. — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026

Swalwell’s attorneys filed a cease and desist letter with Patel and the FBI. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026

His department initially seized about 1,000 boxes of ballot materials, including 650,000 ballots from the Riverside County Registrar of Voters, and later seized another tranche after California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, told him to cease and desist. — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for cease and desist

• assist
• blacklist
• booklist
• checklist
• consist
• dismissed
• enlist
• exist
• insist
• oocyst
• persist
• resist