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1. (law) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
   "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
    
2. A decree that prohibits something
   - ban, proscription
    
3. The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
   - prohibition era
    
4. Refusal to approve or assent to
    
5. The action of prohibiting, inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
   "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter";
   - inhibition, forbiddance

Derived forms: prohibitions

Type of: action, decree, edict, fiat, law, order, period, period of time, refusal, rescript, time period, time span

Encyclopedia: Prohibition