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prohibition

Prohibition is a law or order forbidding something, or is the condition of forbidding something, or was a time in the U.S. during the 1920s and early 1930s when alcohol was illegal. (noun)

An example ofprohibition is when the legislature passes a law making the use of drugs forbidden.

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