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prohibition

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prohibition in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. a decree that prohibits something
    prohibition  ban  proscription 
  2. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
    "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
    prohibition  inhibition  forbiddance 
  3. refusal to approve or assent to
    prohibition 
  4. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
    "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
    prohibition 
  5. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
    prohibition  prohibition era 
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