prohibition
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 prohibition
A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Roget 953: temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness. forbearance, abnegation; self-denial, self-restraint, self-control etc. (resolution) 604. frugality; vegetarianism, ... meer laten zien
Roget 751: restraint; hindrance etc. 706; coercion etc. (compulsion) 744; cohibition†, constraint, repression, suppression; discipline, control. ... meer laten zien
Roget 536: negation, abnegation; denial; disavowal, disclaimer; abjuration; contradiction, contravention; recusation [Law], protest; recusancy etc. (dissent) ... meer laten zien
Roget 55: exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation; exile etc. (seclusion) 893; noninclusion†, preclusion, prohibition. separation, ... meer laten zien
2 prohibition
A decree that prohibits something.
synoniemen: ban, proscription.
Roget 761: prohibition, inhibition; veto, disallowance; interdict, interdiction; injunction, estoppel [Law]; embargo, ban, taboo, proscription; index expurgatorius [Lat.]; ... meer laten zien
Pools: prohibicja
3 prohibition
The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment.
synoniem: prohibition era.
4 prohibition
Refusal to approve or assent to.
5 prohibition
The action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof):
— They were restrained by a prohibition in their charter.
synoniemen: forbiddance, inhibition.
Pools: zdelegalizowanie
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, arrest, arrestation, ban, banning, bar, barring, blockade, boycott, check, circumscription, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, debarment ... meer laten zien.
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