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

Villela and her children continued to live in the house, without paying rent but maintaining the mortgage and its upkeep, until last summer when Attard obtained a court order for their eviction. — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2026

Last month, the apartment’s owner sued the building, seeking damages and a court order to force repairs. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 5 Aug. 2026

The company is seeking a court order that would also require OpenAI to return any confidential information to Apple and cease any efforts to acquire other private details. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026

Justice Melissa Crane dismissed a lawsuit from the assistant, Leslie Kuhn, seeking a court order voiding her nondisclosure agreement. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 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