Prohibition - Definition
prohibition
n 1: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920
the 18th amendment to the Constitution established
prohibition in the US"
2: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition, ban,
proscription]
3: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic
beverages was prohibited in the United States by a
constitutional amendment [syn: prohibition, prohibition
era]
4: refusal to approve or assent to
5: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an
instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in
their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic
beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn:
prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance]