prohibition has definitions from the fields of law,writing
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[ noun ] (law,writing) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

Examples

"in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"

Used in print

(The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)

Consider what happened during World_War_1 , , when the Protestant churches united to push the Prohibition law through Congress .

To try to oppose the general religious and moral conviction of such a majority by a legislative fiat would be to invite the same breakdown of law and order that was occasioned by the ill-starred Prohibition experiment .

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

Prohibition was the law of the land , but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took_up drinking in prohibition days , drinking was so gay , so fashionable , especially in the sophisticated Northeast ! )

Related terms

law law

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[ noun ] (law,writing) a decree that prohibits something

Used in print

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

This prohibition on love has an especially poignant relation to art ; it is particularly the artist ( Tonio_Kro^ger , Aschenbach , Leverku^hn ) who suffers from it .

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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

Synonyms

prohibition_era

Used in print

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

Prohibition was the law of the land , but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took_up drinking in prohibition days , drinking was so gay , so fashionable , especially in the sophisticated Northeast ! )

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time_period

4
[ noun ] the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

Examples

"they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter" "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages" "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"

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action forbid

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[ noun ] refusal to approve or assent to

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refusal ban interdiction

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