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pro·hi·bi·tion

(prō′ə-bĭsh′ən)

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

2. A rule or law that forbids something.

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

b. Prohibition 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.

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prohibition

(ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃən)

1. the act of prohibiting or state of being prohibited

2. an order or decree that prohibits

3. (Historical Terms) (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

4. (Law) law an order of a superior court (in Britain the High Court) forbidding an inferior court to determine a matter outside its jurisdiction

ˌprohiˈbitionary adj

Prohibition

(ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃən)

(Historical Terms) the period (1920–33) when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was banned by constitutional amendment in the US

ˌProhiˈbitionist n

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pro•hi•bi•tion

(ˌproʊ əˈbɪʃ ən)

n.

1. the act of prohibiting.

a. the legal prohibiting of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

b. (usu. cap.) the period (1920–33) during which such prohibition was in effect in the U.S.

3. a law or decree that forbids.

Prohibition

1920–33 legislation prohibiting the sale of alcohol which led to illicit sales and gangsterism.

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Noun	1.	prohibition - a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US" law - legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping" law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
	2.	prohibition - a decree that prohibits something ban, proscription decree, fiat, edict, rescript, order - a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" banning-order - an order that bans something cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment, injunction - (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order" interdict, interdiction - a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
	3.	prohibition - the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment prohibition era period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
	4.	prohibition - refusal to approve or assent to refusal - the act of refusing interdiction - authoritative prohibition banning, forbiddance, forbidding, ban - an official prohibition or edict against something
	5.	prohibition - 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" forbiddance, inhibition action - something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"

prohibition

noun ban, boycott, embargo, bar, veto, prevention, exclusion, injunction, disqualification, interdiction, interdict, proscription, disallowance, forbiddance a comprehensive prohibition of nuclear weapons

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

prohibition

noun

A refusal to allow:

ban, disallowance, forbiddance, inhibition, interdiction, proscription, taboo.

Translations

قانون يَمْنَعمَنْع

zákaz

forbud

Verbot

απαγόρευση

prohibición veda

interdiction prohibition prohibitionnisme défense

eltiltás

bann

proibizione proibizionismo divieto

禁止禁止法

forbud

запрет

prepoved

yasakyasaklama

禁令禁止

prohibition

[ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃən] N → prohibición f
Prohibition (US) → la ley seca, la Prohibición

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

prohibition

[ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃ^ən] n → prohibition f
a prohibition on sth → une interdiction de qch
a prohibition on discrimination → une interdiction de la discrimination
prohibition against sth → interdiction de qch

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prohibition

→ Verbot nt; the prohibition of alcohol → das Alkoholverbot

(the) Prohibition (US Hist) → die Prohibition; the Prohibition era (US Hist) → die Prohibitionszeit

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

prohibition

[ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃ/ən] n → proibizione f, divieto
Prohibition (esp Am) (of alcohol) → proibizionismo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

prohibit

(prəˈhibit) verb

to forbid. Smoking is prohibited.

prohibition (prəuiˈbiʃən) noun

1. the act of prohibiting. We demand the prohibition by the government of the sale of this drug.

2. a rule, law etc forbidding something. The headmaster issued a prohibition against bringing knives into school.

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The prohibition against treaties, alliances, and confederations makes a part of the existing articles of Union; and for reasons which need no explanation, is copied into the new Constitution.

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The design of the objection, which has been mentioned, is to preclude standing armies in time of peace, though we have never been informed how far it is designed the prohibition should extend; whether to raising armies as well as to KEEPING THEM UP in a season of tranquillity or not.

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"When the women get the ballot, they will vote for prohibition," I said.

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We were not, replied I, in danger of being stabbed or poisoned, but are doomed to a more lingering and painful death by that prohibition which obliges your subjects to deny us the necessaries of life; if it be Your Highness's pleasure that we die here, we entreat that we may at least be despatched quickly, and not condemned to longer torments.

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And so from the prohibition of these acts of folly, on to the prohibition of what I thought then were the maddest, most impossible, and most indecent things one could well imagine.

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(for that would be a foolish prohibition), but from owning them.

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Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.

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With thee have I pushed into all the forbidden, all the worst and the furthest: and if there be anything of virtue in me, it is that I have had no fear of any prohibition.

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A great curiosity came on the trustee, to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe.

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They were astonished at such a prohibition, and were exceedingly galled by the tone and manner assumed by the clerks and retainers of the Northwest Company, who ruffled about in that swelling and braggart style which grows up among these heroes of the wilderness; they, in fact, considered themselves lords of the ascendant and regarded the hampered and harassed Astorians as a conquered people.

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Wild-eyed itinerant preachers swarmed over the land; and despite the prohibition of the civil authorities, and the persecution for disobedience, the flames of religious frenzy were fanned by countless camp-meetings.

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They went clothed in steel and equipped with sword and lance and battle-axe, and if they couldn't persuade a person to try a sewing-machine on the installment plan, or a melodeon, or a barbed-wire fence, or a prohibition journal, or any of the other thousand and one things they canvassed for, they removed him and passed on.