Usually means: Court order limiting someone's actions.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. restraining order: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. restraining order: Merriam-Webster
  3. restraining order: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. restraining order: Collins English Dictionary
  5. restraining order: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. restraining order: Wiktionary
  7. restraining order: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. restraining order: Dictionary.com
  9. Restraining Order (film), Restraining order: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. restraining order: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. restraining order: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. restraining order: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Restraining Order: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. restraining order: Legal dictionary
  9. restraining order: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. restraining order: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Restraining order: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. restraining order: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (restraining order)

noun:  (law) An order issued by a court of law or other legal authority for a specified timeframe forbidding the restrained party from contacting and being in close proximity to the protected party and other restrictions, usually banning the possession of arms.
noun:  (law) An order by a judge or other legal authority that prevents an action by a government or institution.

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