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