prohibition
the act of prohibiting.
the legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption.
Often Prohibition . the period (1920–33) when the Eighteenth Amendment was in force and alcoholic beverages could not legally be manufactured, transported, or sold in the United States.
a law or decree that forbids.
Origin of prohibition
1Other words for prohibition
Other words from prohibition
- pro·hi·bi·tion·ar·y, adjective
- an·ti·pro·hi·bi·tion, adjective, noun
- non·pro·hi·bi·tion, noun
- pre·pro·hi·bi·tion, noun
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How to use prohibition in a sentence
The perimeter for parking prohibitions and street closures is larger than normal and will be in effect for a longer period.
How to get around — and avoid — downtown Washington during the inauguration. It won’t be easy. | Luz Lazo | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostState rules adopted last April in response to the investigation had placed stricter limits on the use of seclusion — including a prohibition on isolating students behind a locked door — but did not ban prone restraints.
Bill Banning Locked Seclusion and Face-Down Restraints in Illinois Schools Stalls as Lawmakers Run Out of Time | by Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica | January 14, 2021 | ProPublicaOfficials have cited China’s recent history of vaccine scandals as a reason why it continues to enforce the prohibition.
Pfizer and BioNTech’s overlooked third partner will distribute the vaccine in China—and it’s facing some resistance | Grady McGregor | January 9, 2021 | FortuneThe trades prompted renewed calls for stricter regulation of congressional stock ownership, with proposals ranging from a ban on trading stock while in office to an outright prohibition on stock ownership for elected officials.
Lawmakers with stock holdings vote in ways that juice their portfolios, data shows | Christopher Ingraham | December 10, 2020 | Washington PostOregon spent about $375 million on drug prohibition in that year.
Oregon Just Decriminalized All Drugs – Here’s Why Voters Passed This Groundbreaking Reform | LGBTQ-Editor | December 10, 2020 | No Straight News
The trade flouts a March 2014 prohibition on all exports of weaponry and military equipment to Moscow.
By the time prohibition was on the menu, we were very much an “alcoholic Republic.”
The trend is clear: Marijuana prohibition is coming to an end.
While the end of prohibition brought an end to the alcohol black market in America, the ubiquity of it brought its own problems.
After the end of prohibition in 1933, alcohol was once again legal throughout Arkansas.
Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairIn 1903 this prohibition to foreigners was disputed by a British bank-clerk who arrived in Manila for a foreign bank.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanThe inferior quality of this growth at length caused its prohibition by law, as described elsewhere in this work.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.In 1914, the General Assembly voted for a state-wide law providing for the prohibition of liquor.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThese rules might be of any kind, including (subject to exceptions) a total prohibition, then or at any future time.
English Poor Law Policy | Sidney Webb
British Dictionary definitions for prohibition (1 of 2)
/ (ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃən) /
the act of prohibiting or state of being prohibited
an order or decree that prohibits
(sometimes capital) (esp in the US) a policy of legally forbidding the manufacture, transportation, sale, or consumption of alcoholic beverages except for medicinal or scientific purposes
law an order of a superior court (in Britain the High Court) forbidding an inferior court to determine a matter outside its jurisdiction
Derived forms of prohibition
- prohibitionary, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for Prohibition (2 of 2)
/ (ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃən) /
the period (1920–33) when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was banned by constitutional amendment in the US
Derived forms of Prohibition
- Prohibitionist, noun
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Cultural definitions for Prohibition
[ (proh-uh-bish-uhn) ]
The outlawing of alcoholic beverages nationwide from 1920 to 1933, under an amendment to the Constitution. The amendment, enforced by the Volstead Act, was repealed by another amendment to the Constitution in 1933.
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