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Verb: ban (banned,banning)  ban
  1. Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
    "Smoking is banned in this building"
     
  2. Forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
    "The government banned the controversial film";
    - censor
     
  3. Expel from a community or group
    "The tribe banned the offender";
    - banish, ostracize, ostracise [Brit], shun, cast out, blackball, pill [slang]
Noun: ban (bans)  ban
  1. A decree that prohibits something
    "The government issued a ban on single-use plastics";
    - prohibition, proscription
     
  2. An official prohibition or edict against something
    "The city imposed a ban on single-use plastics";
    - banning, forbiddance, forbidding
Noun: ban[2] (bani)
  1. 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
     
  2. 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
Noun: BAN
  1. A bachelor's degree in nursing
    - Bachelor of Arts in Nursing

Derived forms: bans, bani, banned, banning

Type of: baccalaureate, bachelor's degree, criminalise [Brit], criminalize, decree, disallow, edict, expel, fiat, forbid, illegalise [Brit], illegalize, interdict, kick out [informal], Moldovan monetary unit, nix [N. Amer, informal], order, outlaw, prohibit, prohibition, proscribe, rescript, Romanian monetary unit, throw out, veto

Part of: leu

Encyclopedia: Ban, Iran

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