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• CEASE AND DESIST ORDER
  
  a formal demand from the Office of Thrift Supervision, other government agency, or court, to a person or institution ordering an immediate halt to a specified activity. An OTS cease and desist order is a formal enforcement action. If the respondent does not challenge the issuance of the order, it is called a consent cease and desist order.
  
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