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English to English noun
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a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages |  | Example: in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US
source: wordnet30
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a decree that prohibits something | | source: wordnet30
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the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment | | source: wordnet30
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refusal to approve or assent to | | source: wordnet30
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the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | | Example: they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter
a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages
he ignored his parents' forbiddance
source: wordnet30
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The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. | | source: webster1913
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