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Definition of injunction : 1. A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.
2. That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.
3. The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.

Synonyms:

requirement, instruction, bidding, behest, mandate, direction, commandment, enjoinment, dictate, over, word, words, order, enjoining, cease and desist order, command, charge

restraining order, directive, writ, sanction

disallowance, curtailment, rejection, prohibition, prevention, bar, forbiddance, ban, denial, disapproval, restriction, preclusion, inhibition, blockade, suppression, refusal, restraint, constraint

Usage examples:

• At times the injunction is positively misunderstood, being taken to mean that education should advance from things to thought- as if any dealing with things in which thinking is not involved could possibly be educative. - "How We Think", John Dewey.
• One door seen over the shoulder as we galloped past read, " Station Master's Office- Private," and in contempt of that stern injunction, which would make even the first- class passenger hesitate, one of our shells had knocked away the half of the door and made its privacy a mockery. - "Notes of a War Correspondent", Richard Harding Davis.
• Caroline did not need the injunction. - "Shirley", Charlotte Brontë.