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Prohibition definition

prōə-bĭshən
prohibitions
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The act of prohibiting or the condition of being prohibited.
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A rule or law that forbids something.
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The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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An order or law that forbids.
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In the U.S., the period (1920-1933) of prohibition by federal law.
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A statute or order forbidding a particular action.
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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.

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

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The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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The period (1920–1933) during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was in force in the United States.
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The time from 1920 to 1933 when alcoholic beverages were banned by the Eighteenth Amendment (which was repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment) to the United States Constitution.
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An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
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A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
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(history) Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
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A prohibiting or being prohibited.
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Noun

Singular:
prohibition
Plural:
prohibitions

Prohibition Sentence Examples

  • He re-enacted the prohibition of appeal.

  • It aimed at the prohibition of discrimination between persons, places and commodities.

  • Among other things, Phillips contended, during his later years, for prohibition, woman suffrage and various penal and administrative reforms. He was not always the best judge of character, and was sometimes allied in these movements with men who were little more than demagogues.

  • Thus the Brahmans were offended at the prohibition of suttee and female infanticide, the execution of Brahmans for capital offences, the re-marriage of widows, the spread of missionary effort and the extension of Western education.

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