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Prohibition

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Definitions for Prohibition

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

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