Verb: ban (banned,banning) ban
- Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
"Smoking is banned in this building"
- Forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
"The government banned the controversial film";
- censor
- Expel from a community or group
"The tribe banned the offender";
- banish, ostracize, ostracise [Brit], shun, cast out, blackball, pill [slang]
- A decree that prohibits something
"The government issued a ban on single-use plastics";
- prohibition, proscription
- An official prohibition or edict against something
"The city imposed a ban on single-use plastics";
- banning, forbiddance, forbidding
- 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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