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

The other two court orders came from judges in New York, where Epstein and Maxwell were charged in 2019 and 2020, respectively. —Joe Walsh, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025

Murphy was temporarily reinstated under court order, then fired again when an appeals court overruled that order. —Andrea Hsu, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025

The actual corporate records remain sealed to the public under a court order, but their existence is a matter of public record. —David Ingram, NBC news, 17 Dec. 2025

Among several officials who came forward was Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni, who said he was fired for refusing to go along with Bove’s plans to defy court orders and withhold information from judges to advance the administration’s aggressive deportation goals. —Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 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