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