Prohibition

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NOUN

a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

a decree that prohibits something

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

refusal to approve or assent to

the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

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