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    • prohibition :a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
      • in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US

    • prohibition :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

    • prohibition :a decree that prohibits something

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

        • prohibition :refusal to approve or assent to

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