a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US'
a decree that prohibits something
[ Syn: ban , proscription ]
the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
[ Syn: prohibition era ]
refusal to approve or assent to
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
[ Syn: inhibition , forbiddance ]