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

Any such court order could also raise rates for utility customers, the government said. —Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2026

The lawyers point out that part of the process requires complying with court orders. —Susana Erazo, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026

Federal judges elsewhere have grown increasingly exasperated with ICE’s failure to comply with court orders. —Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2026

After an hours-long detention hearing, Judge David Murphy ordered his release on his own recognizance pending trial, citing his lack of criminal history, compliance with the court order for his arrest and the evidence in the case so far. —Jennifer Watts, ABC News, 6 Feb. 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