prohibition
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(noun) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US" |
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Related Words: law |
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(noun) a decree that prohibits something |
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Synonyms: ban, interdiction, proscription |
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Related Words: banning-order, decree, edict, enjoining, enjoinment, fiat, injunction, order, rescript |
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(noun) refusal to approve or assent to |
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Related Words: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding, interdiction, refusal |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: prohibition era |
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Related Words: amount of time, period, period of time, time period |
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