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 state also has policies to prevent federal authorities from accessing motor vehicle and driver's license records of immigrants without a court order or search warrant. — Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026

In January, immigrant rights groups and detainees filed a federal class action lawsuit against the federal government, which led to the court order in July. — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Right now, law enforcement agencies are barred from sharing personally identifying information with ICE without a court order. — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

The news state workers need to know Auditors obtained a court order from 2024 that identified the second manager as a Tennessee resident. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 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