The meaning of Prohibition

verb

Officially or legally prohibit (something).

Usage examples:

Parking is banned around the harbour in summer

noun

An official or legal prohibition.

Usage examples:

A proposed ban on cigarette advertising

noun

A monetary unit of romania, equal to one hundredth of a leu.

Usage examples:

If you want milk you have to ask for it and it costs extra (often 50 bani or 5000 old lei) and is u…

verb

Officially or legally prohibit (something).

Usage examples:

Parking is banned around the harbour in summer

noun

An official or legal prohibition.

Usage examples:

A proposed ban on cigarette advertising

noun

A curse.

Usage examples:

The land might be smitten by the ban which once fell upon the canaanites

noun

A long rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon.

Usage examples:

An iron bar

verb

Fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars.

Usage examples:

She bolted and barred the door

preposition

Except for.

Usage examples:

His kids were all gone now, bar one

preposition

Except for; if not for.

Usage examples:

Barring accidents, we should win

verb

Fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars.

Usage examples:

She bolted and barred the door

verb

Withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

Usage examples:

We will boycott all banks which take part in the loans scheme

noun

A punitive ban on relations with other bodies, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods.

Usage examples:

A boycott of the negotiations

verb

To refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval

Usage examples:

The union called on its members to boycott the meeting., she organized an economic boycott of the c…

verb

Refuse to declare valid.

Usage examples:

He was offside and the goal was disallowed

noun

An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.

Usage examples:

An embargo on grain sales

verb

Impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity).

Usage examples:

All of these countries have been embargoed by the us

noun

A government order to temporarily stop trading certain goods or with certain countries

Usage examples:

They put an embargo on imports of steel.

adjective

Unfriendly or threatening in appearance.

Usage examples:

A grim and forbidding building

verb

Refuse to allow (something).

Usage examples:

I can see why phones were forbidden

noun

An authoritative warning or order.

Usage examples:

Commands and injunctions, as i suggested, punctuate the text from the outset.

noun

An official order given by a court, usually to stop someone from doing something

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] the court has issued an injunction to prevent distribution of the book.

noun

An official order to do or not do something, which is given by a court of law

Usage examples:

Ask for/seek/request an injunction the board is seeking an injunction against the hostile takeover.…

noun

An authoritative prohibition.

Usage examples:

The university on friday obtained an interim interdict prohibiting students from damaging property …

verb

Prohibit or forbid (something).

Usage examples:

Society will never interdict sex

noun

An official instruction from a law court telling someone that they are not allowed to do something

noun

The action of prohibiting or forbidding something.

Usage examples:

The interdiction of the slave trade

noun

The act of stopping something or of not allowing something, or an occasion when this happens

Usage examples:

Efforts would concentrate mainly on illegal drug interdiction., the majority of missions were in su…

verb

Ban or make illegal.

Usage examples:

Secondary picketing has been outlawed

noun

A person who has broken the law, especially one who remains at large or is a fugitive.

Usage examples:

Bands of outlaws held up trains

verb

Formally forbid (something) by law, rule, or other authority.

Usage examples:

All ivory trafficking between nations is prohibited

verb

Present participle of prohibit

Usage examples:

Motor vehicles are prohibited from driving in the town centre., the government introduced a law pro…

noun

The action of forbidding something; banning.

Usage examples:

The proscription of the party after the 1715 rebellion

noun

A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a lawmaking body.

Usage examples:

Neither state was given a veto over amendments to the act

verb

Exercise a veto against (a decision or proposal).

Usage examples:

The president vetoed the bill

noun

The power to refuse to allow something to be done, or such a refusal

Usage examples:

[ c ] the president has promised a veto if congress passes that bill., [ u ] the mayor will have no…

verb

Exercise a veto against (a decision or proposal).

Usage examples:

The president vetoed the bill

noun

A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a lawmaking body.

Usage examples:

Neither state was given a veto over amendments to the act

verb

Present participle of veto

Usage examples:

In 1961, president de gaulle vetoed britain's entry into the common market., [ + -ing verb ] my bos…