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  • 21cease — verb come or bring to an end; stop. Phrases without cease without stopping. Origin ME: from OFr. cesser, from L. cessare, from cedere to yield …

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  • 22cease — [14] Cease comes via Old French cesser from Latin cessāre ‘delay, stop’. This was derived from cessus, the past participle of cēdere ‘go away, withdraw, yield’, which was also the basis of cessation [14], from Latin cessātiō. Cf.⇒ CESSATION …

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  • 23cease and desist order — An order of an administrative agency or court prohibiting a person or business firm from continuing a particular course of conduct, e.g. Fed. Trade Commission may order a business to cease and desist from misbranding or misadvertising its… …

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  • 24cease and desist order — An order of an administrative agency or court prohibiting a person or business firm from continuing a particular course of conduct, e.g. Fed. Trade Commission may order a business to cease and desist from misbranding or misadvertising its… …

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  • 25From the Earth to the Moon (film) — Infobox Film name = From the Earth to the Moon image size = caption = director = Byron Haskin producer = Benedict Bogeaus writer = Jules Verne (novel) Robert Blees James Leicester narrator = starring = Joseph Cotten George Sanders Debra Paget Don …

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  • 26cease — v 1. stop, discontinue, desist, Archaic. surcease, quit, end, leave off, come to an end, finish, conclude, terminate; break off, pause, intermit, suspend, rest; take a break, take a breather; abate, lessen, lull, quiet down, let up, come to a… …

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  • 27cease and desist order — noun Date: 1926 an order from an administrative agency to refrain from a method of competition or a labor practice found by the agency to be unfair …

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  • 28cease fire — 1. A command given to any unit or individual firing any weapon to stop engaging the target. See also call for fire; fire mission. 2. A command given to air defense artillery units to refrain from firing on, but to continue to track, an airborne… …

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  • 29cease and desist order — temporary order from a government authority that orders a business to stop a certain activity (when there is suspicion of impropriety or of a violation of the law) …

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  • 30cease — I. v. n. 1. Desist, stop, stay, break off, leave off, give over. 2. Fail, be extinct, be wanting. 3. Terminate, end, be at an end, come to an end, blow over. II. v. a. Leave off, stop, desist from, give over, end …

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