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Noun prohibition has 5 senses
- prohibition - a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
--1 is a kind of law
- prohibition, ban, proscription - a decree that prohibits something
--2 is a kind of decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript
--2 has particulars:
- prohibition, prohibition era - the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
--3 is a kind of time period, period of time, period
- prohibition - refusal to approve or assent to
--4 is a kind of refusal
--4 has particulars: interdiction; ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding
- prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance - 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"
--5 is a kind of action
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