prohibition




prohibition - noun

  • a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
  • a decree that prohibits something
  • the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
  • refusal to approve or assent to
  • the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

    • prohibition - thesaurus

    ban   forbiddance   inhibition   proscription