Definition of Prohibition

Noun

  • 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"
  • refusal to approve or assent to
  • the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
    - prohibition era
  • a decree that prohibits something
  • a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
    "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
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Unscramble prohibition

245 unscramble word found using the letters prohibition.

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