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 Definitions of prohibition  [ˌproʊ əˈbɪʃ ən]  

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Definition of 'prohibition' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) prohibition
the act of prohibiting.

2.  prohibition
the legal prohibiting of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

3.  prohibition
(usu. cap.) the period (1920–33) during which such prohibition was in effect in the U.S.

4.  prohibition
a law or decree that forbids.


Definition of 'prohibition' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) prohibition
a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
"in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"

2. (noun) prohibition, ban, proscription
a decree that prohibits something

3. (noun) prohibition, prohibition era
the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

4. (noun) prohibition
refusal to approve or assent to

5. (noun) prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance
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"


Definition of 'prohibition' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) prohibition
the act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict

2. (noun) prohibition
specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages


Translation of 'prohibition' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the act of prohibiting
We demand the prohibition by the government of the sale of this drug.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: verbod Arabic flag Arabic: مَنْع Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: забраняване
Brazilian flag Brazilian: proibição Czech flag Czech: zákaz German flag German: das Verbot
Danish flag Danish: forbud Greek flag Greek: απαγόρευση Spanish flag Spanish: prohibición
Estonian flag Estonian: keeld Farsi flag Farsi: ممنوعیت Finnish flag Finnish: kieltäminen
French flag French: interdiction Hebrew flag Hebrew: אִיסוּר Hindi flag Hindi: निषेध, प्रतिषेध
Hungarian flag Hungarian: tilalom Indonesian flag Indonesian: larangan Icelandic flag Icelandic: bann
Italian flag Italian: proibizione Japanese flag Japanese: 禁止 Korean flag Korean: 금지
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: (už)draudimas Latvian flag Latvian: aizliegums Malay flag Malay: larangan
Dutch flag Dutch: verbod Norwegian flag Norwegian: forbud (mot) Polish flag Polish: zakaz
Persian flag Persian: ممنوعیت Pashto flag Pashto: مخنيوى Portuguese flag Portuguese: proibição
Romanian flag Romanian: prohi­biţie, interzicere Russian flag Russian: запрещение Slovak flag Slovak: zákaz
Slovenian flag Slovenian: prepoved Serbian flag Serbian: prohibicija Swedish flag Swedish: förbud
Thai flag Thai: การห้าม Turkish flag Turkish: yasaklama Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 禁止
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: заборона Urdu flag Urdu: منع، رکاوٹ Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự ngăn cấm
Chinese flag Chinese: 禁止

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