Definition of prohibitions Prohibitions

/pɹowˌʌbɪˈʃʌnz/ - [prowubishunz] -

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What does prohibitions mean?

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  • prohibitions (Noun)
    Plural of prohibition.

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Noun

Plural: prohibitions

prohibition - a decree that prohibits something
  ban, proscription
  decree, fiat, edict, rescript, order a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
  banning-order an order that bans something
  cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment, injunction (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order"
prohibition - 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"
  inhibition, forbiddance
  action something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"
prohibition - a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
  law the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale"
  jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
prohibition - refusal to approve or assent to
  refusal a message refusing to accept something that is offered
  interdiction authoritative prohibition
prohibition - the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
  prohibition era
  period of time, time period, period an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
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  • prohibition (n.)
    The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
  • prohibition (n.)
    Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

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  • prohibition
    An interdiction or forbidding of an activity or action by authority or law.

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