cease and desist

短语

结束和停止

词形变化

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别名

C&D

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A written demand that a party stops and does not resume a certain behavior, such as copyright infringement, slander, or libel, threatening legal action if the recipient fails to do so.

    定语 法律

    She received a cease-and-desist from his solicitors soon after the podcast.

  2. 2.

    An order by a government agency, sanctioned by a court, that one must stop and not resume a certain (usually illegal) behavior.

    美国 定语 法律

    His remarks did not stop the courts from issuing the cease-and-desist order.

v.
  1. 1.

    To stop and not resume an action.

    结束和停止

    法律

    We are told to cease and desist or we will cease to exist.

词源

From cease (“stop”), and desist (“to not do again”). The noun sense can be viewed synchronically as an ellipsis of cease-and-desist order.

来源：wiktionary