PROHIBITION Definition & Meaning

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prohibition

[ proh-uh-bish-uhn ]

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noun

the act of prohibiting.
the legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption.
Often Prohibition. the period (1920鈥�33) when the Eighteenth Amendment was in force and alcoholic beverages could not legally be manufactured, transported, or sold in the United States.
a law or decree that forbids.
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Prohibition

/ 藢辫谤蓹蕣瑟藞产瑟蕛蓹苍 /

noun

the period (1920鈥�33) when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was banned by constitutional amendment in the US

prohibition

/ 藢辫谤蓹蕣瑟藞产瑟蕛蓹苍 /

noun

the act of prohibiting or state of being prohibited
an order or decree that prohibits
sometimes capital (esp in the US) a policy of legally forbidding the manufacture, transportation, sale, or consumption of alcoholic beverages except for medicinal or scientific purposes
law an order of a superior court (in Britain the High Court) forbidding an inferior court to determine a matter outside its jurisdiction

Prohibition

The outlawing of alcoholic beverages nationwide from 1920 to 1933, under an amendment to the Constitution . The amendment, enforced by the Volstead Act, was repealed by another amendment to the Constitution in 1933.

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Notes

Prohibition is often mentioned in discussions of how much social change can be brought about through law, because alcohol was widely, though illegally, produced and sold during Prohibition; it was served privately in the White House under President Warren Harding , for example.

Many use the example of Prohibition to argue that more harm than good comes from the enactment of laws that are sure to be widely disobeyed.

Some states and localities (called 鈥渄ry鈥�) had outlawed the production and sale of alcohol before the Prohibition amendment was adopted. The repealing amendment allowed individual states and localities to remain 鈥渄ry,鈥� and some did for many years.

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Derived Forms

藢笔谤辞丑颈藞产颈迟颈辞苍颈蝉迟, noun
藢辫谤辞丑颈藞产颈迟颈辞苍补谤测, adjective

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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

辫谤辞顎卙颈路产颈顎僼颈辞苍路补谤顎厃 adjective
补苍顎卼颈路辫谤辞顎卙颈路产颈顎僼颈辞苍 adjective noun
苍辞苍顎卲谤辞路丑颈路产颈顎僼颈辞苍 noun
辫谤别顎卲谤辞路丑颈路产颈顎僼颈辞苍 noun

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of prohibition¹

First recorded in 1275鈥�1325; Middle English, from Latin 辫谤辞丑颈产颈迟颈艒苍-, stem of 辫谤辞丑颈产颈迟颈艒 鈥減revention鈥�; equivalent to prohibit + -ion

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Example Sentences

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But the bans have momentum 鈥� a recent poll found that 62% of those surveyed support prohibitions on narcocorridos 鈥� and they have put the genre鈥檚 stars in a tricky position.

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The prohibition zone, which includes the exclusive Malibu Colony and verdant Serra Retreat neighborhood.

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Goldsmith鈥檚 letter echoed some of the assertions made by other disciplined writers, whose punishments range from public censure to suspensions to prohibitions from acting as volunteer captains; with the most drastic being expulsion.

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The erasures, almost exclusively promoted by Republicans, target legal prohibitions against child exploitation that have been in place for nearly a century.

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鈥淭his administration may be more open to looking at Department of Labor prohibitions on hazardous occupations for tens and to pull some of those back,鈥� says Jennifer Sherer, an EPI analyst.

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