prohibition

Meanings

• a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
  • "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
• 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)
  • "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"

Synonyms

ban, forbiddance, inhibition, prohibition era, proscription