PROHIBITION

• (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

  "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter", "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages", "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"

  synonyms : forbiddance , inhibition

• (noun) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

  "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"

• (noun) a decree that prohibits something

  synonyms : ban , proscription

• (noun) refusal to approve or assent to

• (noun) the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

  synonyms : prohibition era

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