meaning of prohibition
1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
3. 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
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Related Words
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