Overview of noun enjoining

The noun enjoining has 1 sense

• injunction, enjoining, enjoinment, cease and desist order -- ((law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order")

Overview of verb enjoin

The verb enjoin has 2 senses

• enjoin -- (issue an injunction)


• order, tell, enjoin, say -- (give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed")