/pɹowˌʌbɪˈʃʌnz/ - [prowubishunz] -
We found 3 definitions of prohibitions from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: 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" |