[ + to infinitive ] The court has issued an injunction to prevent the airline from increasing its prices.
[ + -ing verb ] She is seeking an injunction banning the newspaper from publishing the photographs.
Meaning of injunction in English
(Definition of injunction from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
injunction | American Dictionary
[ + to infinitive ] The court has issued an injunction to prevent distribution of the book.
(Definition of injunction from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of injunction
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The injunction is for ward-looking, whereas the sanction is backward-looking.
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There are two further elements that go into figuring out if an injunction is merited.
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Understanding the landscape implies knowledge about ownership, stories, ritual injunctions pertaining to that particular landscape.
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The sheer density of documentation and numerous injunctions against labor mobility reflect these high rates as well as the government's sense of impending crisis.
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Lists of new injunctions to be followed and the policing of activities to prevent accidental accruing of sin are constantly emphasized.
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As we all know, some instructions could, perversely, be taken as direct personal injunctions without reference to the product or package.
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The entire structure that leads to my account of injunctions is necessarily presupposed by any sort of ordering by contract. 30.
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No court will hear you say that you did nothing wrong, as the injunction was predicated on a wrong being identified.
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If some activity is sufficiently troublesome or dangerous to merit an injunction, a blanket prohibition replaces a standard of care.
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The sense in which injunctions protect autonomy is highlighted by the fact that an injunction can be waived, or sold for a fee.
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Like the coming-to-the-nuisance defense, it has an air of plausibility if we think of the injunction as changing what was an acceptable status quo.
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Within the village, the injunction against drum playing is one of the community's constitutive prohibitions, the breaking of which is accompanied by sanction.
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I do not mean to suggest that all criminal law readily fits the injunction model.
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The union engaged in constant legal battles, particularly against numerous injunctions issued by judges friendly to employers.
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The council eventually had to obtain an injunction against the landlord.
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