Prohibition meaning

noun

1. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

   “in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US”

2. a decree that prohibits something

   Synonymsbanproscription

3. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

   Synonymsprohibition era

4. refusal to approve or assent to

5. 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”

   Synonymsinhibitionforbiddance