prohibition
Nouns
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(n) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US
- (n) a decree that prohibits something ban, proscription,
- (n) the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment prohibition era,
- (n) refusal to approve or assent to
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(n) 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