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US
/ˌpɹoʊəˈbɪʃən/
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[ UK /pɹəhɪbˈɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /pɹəhɪbˈɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a decree that prohibits something
- refusal to approve or assent to
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a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US - the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
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the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages
he ignored his parents' forbiddance
they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter
How To Use prohibition In A Sentence
- I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
- With these prohibitions should be connected the somewhat unintelligible fact that the most pious Caliphs sat upon thrones (_mimbar_, "president's chair") of clay. Christianity and Islam
- Non-governmental organizations were formed to oppose the pumping, and in 2001 the federal government launched an investigation into the company on the grounds it was violating constitutional prohibitions on demineralizing water.
- I noticed a tap for a local microbrew called Prohibition Ale, brewed by Speakeasy Brewery.
- What began as a cheap and easy way to disguise the taste of alcohol in prohibition America quickly became the drink of choice for the privileged fast set of the 1920s.
- The European Union boycott and American prohibitions are not seriously handicapping Burma.
- The suggestion that the President violated section 1503's prohibition on "influenc [ing], obstruct [ing], or imped [ing] the due administration of justice" is groundless. Initial Response To Referral Of Office Of Independent Counsel
- It got the name ‘moonshine’ during Prohibition after the light by which mash men tended their illegal stills.
- Tom Hanks plays the part of an enforcer for a gangster during prohibition.
- Ready availability being the most precious of Prohibition virtues, gin was lifted above the historical pedigree that led Willa Cather to call it “the consolation of sailors and inebriate scrub-women.” LAST CALL