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

As one example, the Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System data tracks opioid shipments from distributors to pharmacies and was disclosed under court order following litigation in 2019, about eight years after peak opioid prescribing. — J. Travis Donahoe, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026

The justices denied the government’s request to freeze a lower-court order that found the administration’s decision to end such care for prisoners was not backed by sufficient evidence. — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026

Although Kaufman-Renn plays for Kansas, his court order is from a state court in Indiana and would not be altered by the NCAA winning Wisne. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Another Supreme Court case made injunctions — the court orders that companies historically relied on to halt patent infringement — significantly harder to secure. — Andrei Iancu, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

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