prohibition

  1. Proper noun.  (history) any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
  2. Noun.  An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
  3. Noun.  A law that prohibits something, especially alcohol.

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