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

Among those scheduled to testify at the hearing for the government were an Oklahoma couple who were storing some of Goudreau's belongings, including two assault rifles an associate recently tried to retrieve in possible violation of a court order against possessing firearms while on bond. —Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2025

The October court order rejects the Department of Education’s motion to dismiss the case and blocks the administration from implementing the discontinuation against nearly 50 grantees across the country while the lawsuit continues. —Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025

Several lawsuits and protests have arisen in response, and last month, a court order paused all activity related to the project. —Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025

The lawsuit, which sought a court order to block the hiring, accused YouTube of inducing Connolly into breaching his deal. —Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 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