noun. The act of prohibiting or the condition of being prohibited.

noun. A rule or law that forbids something.

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noun. The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

noun. The period (1920–1933) during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was in force in the United States.

noun. The act of prohibiting, forbidding, or interdicting; an edict or a decree to forbid or debar.

noun. In a restricted sense, the interdiction by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks, except for medicinal or sacramental uses.

noun. In Scots law, a technical clause in a deed of entail prohibiting the heir from selling the estate, contracting debt, altering the order of succession, etc. Synonyms Interdiction, inhibition, embargo. See prohibit.

noun. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

noun. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

noun. a writ issued by a superior tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending before it.

noun. An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.

noun. A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.

noun. refusal to approve or assent to

noun. a decree that prohibits something

noun. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

noun. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

noun. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)