enjoining 1 of 2

noun

as in prohibiting
the act of ordering that something not be done or used the enjoining of the use of all tobacco products by the director of the baseball camp

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enjoining

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verb

present participle of enjoin
1
as in demanding
to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority police enjoined the community's full cooperation in getting rid of the drug dealers

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2
as in instructing
to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority undeterred, the captain enjoined his crew to sail at full speed into the mine-filled harbor

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3
as in forbidding
to order not to do or use or to be done or used Quakerism enjoins the taking of human life

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Recent Examples of enjoining
Noun
The Central European country is not the slightest bit demure with its enjoining of would-be digital nomads. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 14 July 2026 The lawsuit asks the Ingham County Circuit Court to declare Kalshi's internet sports betting operation a common law nuisance and to issue a permanent injunction and order of abatement enjoining and restraining Kalshi from engaging in or advertising its internet sports betting operation in Michigan. — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 6 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enjoining
  1. prohibition
  2. demanding
  3. instructing
  4. prohibiting
  5. banning
  6. requiring
  7. ordering
  8. forbidding
Noun
  • Blind to Russia’s own staged electoral process, the Kremlin has repeatedly pushed the idea that the martial law prohibition on Ukrainian elections in wartime means Zelensky is illegitimate.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • DeSantis has signed strict legislation into law on the issue, including a prohibition on data centers passing on costs to ratepayers and new authority for local communities to reject data centers from being built.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of prohibition
Verb
  • Teachers need standards that are clear, precise, coherent and demanding enough to prepare students for the future.
    — Michael Casserly, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Democrats are demanding an investigation into the conditions aboard the Lincoln after reports of low morale among sailors during the extended mission.
    — Ford McCracken, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of demanding
Verb
  • Investigators located an email sent from Bailey instructing Roell to change his name to successfully pass background checks to be hired in Forney, Raybould said.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The country's National Development and Reform Commission issued its decision in April, instructing the parties to withdraw the transaction.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of instructing
Verb
  • However, successive boards have chosen not to enforce the restriction prohibiting dogs.
    — Howard Dakoff, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The Town Council then approved an ordinance in June prohibiting electric bike and scooter riding in public parks.
    — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of prohibiting
Noun
  • Rescues during holidays have declined in recent years, owing to the prohibition of alcohol on Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the Fourth of July, along with the banning of diving along the Clay Banks, Nunez said.
    — Reeti Malhotra July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
  • The talk was organized by local synagogues and the Chattanooga Jewish Federation in response to the banning of the novel by a nearby Tennessee school district a month prior.
    — SPIN Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026
Definition of banning
Verb
  • Gobillard hopes to complete the harvest at the estate in about nine days, a job requiring around 120 workers recruited mostly from across France and Poland.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Projects expected to have significant regional impacts are required to go through the DRI process to help local governments with infrastructure planning, but the agency only began requiring that large solar projects participate last year.
    — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of requiring
Verb
  • My family got a slow start most days, ordering in-room breakfast and enjoying the gorgeous view from our balcony.
    — Nicole Chung, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
  • His wife, Tesse, was in the kitchen cooking lunch for a Metro worker ordering take-out.
    — Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of ordering
Verb
  • The castle moniker invokes brooding keeps, defensive towers and forbidding stone.
    — Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Some of them led to places that were forbidding, almost aggressively inscrutable, while others were easy enough to read but left an eight-year-old feeling that some funny business was going on behind her back.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Definition of forbidding

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