"gag order" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gag orders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gag order (plural gag orders)
  1. (law) An order issued by a court prohibiting specified persons from discussing a case outside limitations set by the court. Categories (topical): Law Related terms: gagging order [UK], suppression order Translations (an order issued by a court): 禁言令 (jìnyánlìng) (Chinese Mandarin), spreekverbod [neuter] (Dutch), suukapulamääräys (Finnish), Redeverbot [neuter] (German), Maulkorberlass [colloquial, masculine] (German), þagnartilskipun [feminine] (Icelandic)
    Sense id: en-gag_order-en-noun-qphAynWZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 64 36 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 60 40 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'an order issued by a court': 96 4
  2. (informal) Any directive from a person in authority prohibiting another person from speaking about a certain thing. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Directives Translations (any directive from a person in authority prohibiting another person from speaking about a certain thing): 禁言令 (jìnyánlìng) (Chinese Mandarin), suukapulamääräys (Finnish), Redeverbot [neuter] (German), Maulkorb [masculine] (German), ordem de silêncio [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-gag_order-en-noun-2vf9uwKL Disambiguation of Directives: 37 63 Disambiguation of 'any directive from a person in authority prohibiting another person from speaking about a certain thing': 6 94

Inflected forms

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