American English pronunciation
How to pronounce prohibition
IPA transcription: [p,ɹoʊə'bɪʃən]
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Noun
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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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a decree that prohibits something
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the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
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refusal to approve or assent to
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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”
Usage examples
- The following year, after Boone was turned out of office, the prohibition was repealed.
- He also supported women's suffrage and a national prohibition amendment.
- West was a fervent prohibitionist.
- The county is an alcohol prohibition or dry county.
- The club operated most notably during America's Prohibition Era.
- However, writs of prohibition could be granted without such debate.
- Related enciphered communications were passed by persistent anti-prohibitionists to protect their operations.
- In that year, he became chairman of the Manitoba Prohibition Alliance.
- Lincoln is a prohibition or dry county.
- The Committee's activities helped lead to the repeal of prohibition.