Tabu - English meaning

noun

Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.

Usage examples:

Racial hatred was anathema to her

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

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…

adjective

Not allowed; banned.

Usage examples:

A list of forbidden books

verb

Refuse to allow (something).

Usage examples:

I can see why phones were forbidden

adjective

Not permitted, esp. by rule or law

Usage examples:

Automobiles are forbidden on the island., he was strictly forbidden to talk with them.

adjective

Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.

Usage examples:

Illegal drugs

noun

A person living in a country without official authorization.

Usage examples:

Letting the states bill the feds for the costs associated with illegals would hit the politicians i…

adjective

Against the law

Usage examples:

Fireworks are illegal in many places., illegally obtained passports

adjective

Forbidden by law, rules, or custom.

Usage examples:

Illicit drugs

Contrary to accepted morality or convention

adjective

Illegal or socially disapproved of

Usage examples:

Illicit trade, illicit activities

adjective

Not permitted or allowed.

Usage examples:

Their refusal to discuss the issue is impermissible

adjective

Not allowed

Usage examples:

There are certain topics of conversation that are impermissible in polite society.

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…

noun

A situation in which someone fails or refuses to make a payment that they have been asked to make

Usage examples:

If he does not accept the proposals for repayment, he must give on the form his reasons for non-acc…

adjective

Made illegal; banned.

Usage examples:

An outlawed extremist group

verb

Ban or make illegal.

Usage examples:

Secondary picketing has been outlawed

verb

Past simple and past participle of outlaw

Usage examples:

The new law will outlaw smoking in public places.

adjective

That has been forbidden; banned.

Usage examples:

They had deliberately fed prohibited material to their herd

verb

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

Usage examples:

All ivory trafficking between nations is prohibited

verb

Past simple and past 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, especially by law.

Usage examples:

They argue that prohibition of drugs will always fail

noun

In the us, prohibition was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was illegal.

noun

The period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was forbidden in the us

Usage examples:

There was a thriving black market during prohibition., the regulations spell out the prohibition of…

verb

Forbid, especially by law.

Usage examples:

Strikes remained proscribed in the armed forces

verb

Past simple and past participle of proscribe

Usage examples:

Torture and summary execution of political prisoners are proscribed by international law., the athl…

noun

The action of forbidding something; banning.

Usage examples:

The proscription of the party after the 1715 rebellion

adjective

Limited in extent, number, scope, or action.

Usage examples:

Western scientists had only restricted access to the site

verb

Put a limit on; keep under control.

Usage examples:

Some roads may have to be closed at peak times to restrict the number of visitors

adjective

Limited in amount or range

Usage examples:

Job opportunities are severely restricted at the moment., restricted goods/service/supply engineeri…

noun

A limiting condition or measure, especially a legal one.

Usage examples:

Planning restrictions on commercial development

noun

Something that limits someone's actions or movement, or limits the amount, size, etc., of something

Usage examples:

[ c ] you can get a discount fare, but some restrictions (= rules about limits) apply.

noun

An official limit or control on what people or companies are allowed to do, or on what can happen

Usage examples:

Impose/place/put restrictions on sth this practice imposes unneccessary restrictions on employment.…

adjective

Not conforming to, permitted by, or recognized by law or rules.

Usage examples:

The use of unlawful violence

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

Past simple and past participle of veto

Usage examples:

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