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enjoin 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/enˈjoin/,
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enjoining, present participle; enjoined, past tense; enjoins, 3rd person singular present; enjoined, past participle;
  1. Instruct or urge (someone) to do something
    • - the code enjoined members to trade fairly
  2. Prescribe (an action or attitude) to be performed or adopted
    • - the charitable deeds enjoined on him by religion
  3. Prohibit someone from performing (a particular action) by issuing an injunction


  1. issue an injunction
  2. order: 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"
  3. (enjoinment) injunction: (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"
  4. An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order, whereby a party is required to do, or to refrain from doing, certain acts. ...
  5. To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge; To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on
  6. (Enjoining) An order by the court telling a person to stop performing a specific act.
  7. To order or require; to order that something be stopped.
  8. to require a person, by writ of injunction from a court of equity, to perform or to abstain or desist from some act
  9. For a court to order that someone either do a specific act, cease a course of conduct or stop doing a certain act. The resulting order is called an injunction.
  10. To prohibit or restrain someone from doing something, normally by order of the court. See "Restraining Order."
  11. command, order, instruction, impose, prescribe, require, direct
  12. To impose as a rule, to command.
  13. To forbid; restrain.