prohibition
proh uh bi shuhn
- n a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US - n a decree that prohibits something
- n the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- n refusal to approve or assent to
- n the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter
- The greater part of a decade has elapsed since prohibition became national and the word Volstead was minted for household use.
- The prohibition question became involved again in its continual melee by an unexpected turn of events.
- The subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week closed its hearings on prohibition, and so a great talk fest came to an end.