Synonym: ban, forbiddance, inhibition, prohibition era, proscription. Similar words: prohibit, exhibition, inhibit, exhibit, inhibited, ambitious, edition, position. Meaning: [‚prəʊɪ'bɪʃn] 
n. 1. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages 2. a decree that prohibits something 3. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment 4. refusal to approve or assent to 5. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof).
n. 1. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages 2. a decree that prohibits something 3. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment 4. refusal to approve or assent to 5. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof). 
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61. It was certainly not a prohibition on lending money at a rate of interest which can be earned by the recipient.
62. These authors argue that, in the absence of a specific treaty prohibition nuclear weapons are not perse illegal.
63. They were known as Wets, and the Wets claimed that Prohibition would result in drinkers switching from drink to drugs.
64. The pay rise prohibition, however, had been approved by only six states by the end of 1791.
65. All three parts of Resolution 45/57 on the prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons were adopted without a vote.
66. The National Rifle Association has opposed the prohibition of firearm sales to foreign tourists, saying that it would discriminate against them.
67. The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture.
68. He concentrated on representing non-Protestant immigrants and was a trial lawyer during Prohibition days.
69. This would bring about a de facto prohibition that will make drug prohibition seem like small beer.
70. Once, during Prohibition,[sentencedict.com] I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. W. C. Fields 
71. All reservists had a 60-day window to sign up and there was no prohibition on those who already got their orders.
72. But the island that in the prohibition years after 1920 profitably ran the rum trade is well placed for bootlegging cocaine.
73. The 1974 Act is enforced by the Health and Safety Inspectorate, who have various powers, prohibition notices, etc.
74. Well-behaved high-caste Hindus do not touch the stuff, and the constitution enshrines prohibition as a public goal.
75. The prohibition of fair wages clauses in contracts awarded by public bodies to outside companies. 5.
76. The Convention initially chose regulation over prohibition when it was signed in March 1989.
77. Federal legislation banning narcotics had already been enacted three years earlier and the prohibition of alcohol was only two years away.
78. They claim that the prohibition in fact merely equalizes people's ability to pursue their own conception of the good.
79. This, the most far-reaching of the bill's proposals,[sentencedict.com] would have resulted in the prohibition of over 300 pesticides.
80. Amnesty International performs a similar function with respect to the treatment of political detainees and the international prohibition of torture.
81. The Government reiterated its intention to introduce a prohibition on anti-competitive agreements and concerted practices.
82. This is hardly surprising, given the way governments the world over have for decades hammered home the dogma of prohibition.
83. But the immediate consequence of the prohibition of women in trading was clear to all: It kept women farther from power.
84. The prohibition amendment made bootlegging profitable.
85. Park in prohibition against defloration.
86. Prohibition is an important means of protecting commercial secrets.
87. The prohibition against drunken driving will save many lives.
88. They were restrained by a prohibition in their charter.
89. the prohibition of smoking in public areas.
90. The company bootlegged corn whiskey during Prohibition.
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