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Word: prohibition (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A law that prohibits something, especially alcohol.
  • An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.

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Proper noun:

  • history any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal

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