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1. Forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
   - censor
    
2. Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
   "Smoking is banned in this building"
    
3. Expel from a community or group
   - banish, ostracize, ostracise [Brit], shun, cast out, blackball

1. A decree that prohibits something
   - prohibition, proscription
    
2. An official prohibition or edict against something
   - banning, forbiddance, forbidding
    
3. A logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10.
   "The ban pre-dates Shannon's use of bit as a unit of information by at least eight years, and remains in use in the early 21st Century.";
   - Hart, hartley, dit

1. 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
    
2. 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova

1. A bachelor's degree in nursing
   - Bachelor of Arts in Nursing

Derived forms: banning, bani, bans, banned

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, unit, unit of measurement, veto

Part of: leu

Encyclopedia: Ban, Iran