[
UK
/bˈæn/
]
[ US /ˈbæn/ ]
[ US /ˈbæn/ ]
VERB
-
prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
Smoking is banned in this building - forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
- expel from a community or group
- ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
NOUN
- a decree that prohibits something
- an official prohibition or edict against something
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
How To Use ban In A Sentence
- Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
- The captain's armband must have special powers because he's been brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
- Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
- In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
- This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
- The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
- Forbes: In terms of scale, the size of a bank for lending, is there a point where being bigger does not make you more efficient in lending? Transcript: Richard Bove
- So, did it take a row over a ban on journalists to enable him to penetrate the secret that the regime is not a model of benignity?
- Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
- Mr Smith said the department's own funds, which have bankrolled major improvements in the naval service, had been well tapped and it was now time to explore new ways of funding.