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Meaning of prohibition

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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