prohibition

n 1: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920

the 18th amendment to the Constitution established

prohibition in the US"

2: a decree that prohibits something [syn: {ban}, {interdiction},

{proscription}]

3: 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}]

4: refusal to approve or assent to