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PROHIBITION

Definition:

1. [noun] a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
   
   
2. [noun] a decree that prohibits something
   Synonyms: ban, proscription
   
   
3. [noun] the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
   Synonyms: era
   
   
4. [noun] refusal to approve or assent to
   
   
5. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: inhibition, forbiddance
   
   

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Related Words:

• banning-order
• injunction, enjoining, enjoinment, cease and desist order
• interdict, interdiction
• interdiction
• ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding

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