prohibition

Noun

• 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
    

• refusal to approve or assent to

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

• a decree that prohibits something

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  inhibition , forbiddance , prohibition era , ban , proscription