cease and desist

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. attributive
    — She received a cease-and-desist from his solicitors soon after the podcast.
  2. An order by a government agency, sanctioned by a court, that one must stop and not resume a certain (usually illegal) behavior. US,attributive
    — His remarks did not stop the courts from issuing the cease-and-desist order.
动词 v.
  1. To stop and not resume an action.
    — We are told to cease and desist or we will cease to exist.

词形变化

ceases and desists present,singular,third-person ceasing and desisting participle,present ceased and desisted participle,past ceased and desisted past cease-and-desist canonical

词源

词源 1
From cease (“stop”), and desist (“to not do again”). The noun sense can be viewed synchronically as an ellipsis of cease-and-desist order.
词源 2
From cease (“stop”), and desist (“to not do again”). The noun sense can be viewed synchronically as an ellipsis of cease-and-desist order.
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