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prohibition

English

  1. 🔊 the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
    “they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter”
  2. 🔊 a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
    “in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US”
  3. 🔊 a decree that prohibits something
  4. 🔊 refusal to approve or assent to
  5. 🔊 the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

Spanish

  1. 🔊 prohibición prohibition
  2. 🔊 veda prohibition, ban

Similar words

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