injunct
/ɪnˈdʒʌŋ(k)t
/verb [with object]
Issue a legal injunction against: the government tried to injunct the newspaper...
- Please note however that any application to injunct our clients from exercising their rights should be issued on notice to us as we require to be in attendance before the Court on the hearing of any such application.
- They threatened to injunct the newspaper under the Data Protection Act 2003.
- And how would a judge decide whether to injunct a forthcoming book when the key witness is dead?
Origin
Late 19th century: from Latin injunct- 'imposed', from the verb injungere (see enjoin).
Rhymes
- perfectible
- perfecting cylinder
- perfecting machine
- perfecting press
- perfection
- perfectional
- perfectionate
- perfectionated
- perfectionation
- perfectioned
- perfectioner
- perfectioning
- perfectionism
- perfectionist
- perfectionistic
- perfectionize
- perfectionment
- Perfectist
- perfectivation
- share and share alike
- share capital
- sharecrop
- sharecropper
- shared care
- sharedness