prohibition

關於prohibition的翻譯

禁止,禁令,禁酒,禁酒運動

prohibition definition

1. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
• examples: in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US
2. a decree that prohibits something
3. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
4. refusal to approve or assent to
5. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
• examples: they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter
• examples: a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages
• examples: he ignored his parents' forbiddance