Prohibition - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˌprəʊəˈbɪʃn|  American pronunciation of the word prohibition
Brit.  |ˌprəʊhɪˈbɪʃ(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word prohibition

noun

- 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 (syn: ban, proscription)
- 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) (syn: forbiddance, inhibition)
they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter

Extra examples

...a speakeasy that became a fashionable café with the repeal of prohibition...

...getting caught with bootleg during Prohibition could have resulted in a jail sentence...

...during Prohibition, moonshine and “bathtub gin” were made secretly...

I longed to go nearer it, but the prohibition withheld me.

Paradoxically, the prohibition of liquor caused an increase in alcoholism.

The laws liberalized after Prohibition

Word forms

noun
singular: prohibition
plural: prohibitions
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