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.
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Since then, a court order has been issued to the school, but according to O’Connor, it’s still not followed. IndyStar, 8 Sep. 2025 For good measure, Burroughs also engaged with Barrett’s explanation that addressing both backward- and forward-looking claims would have required two separate court orders. Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025 Their designations were to expire in September but later extended until February due to a separate court order out of New York. Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025 Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native who had been living in Maryland with his wife and children, was deported in March to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution. Laura Romero, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for court order

Word History

First Known Use

1650, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of court order was in 1650

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“Court order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/court%20order. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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