desist
dis ist
- v choose not to consume
- After an Ann Arbor retailer he worked with was served a cease-and-desist order, a co-op member offered her nearby home as a new pickup site.
- If it is an affirmative decision, FTC then issues a cease--desist order, which is a sort of informal injunction.
- That status quo now consists of a full-bore pursuit of a nuclear-weapons program despite a pledge to cease and desist at the so-called six-party talks held during the Bush .