Usually means: Government prevention of expression beforehand.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. prior restraint: Merriam-Webster
  2. prior restraint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prior restraint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prior restraint: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. prior restraint: Dictionary.com
  6. Prior restraint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. prior restraint: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. prior restraint: Wiktionary

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. prior restraint: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prior restraint: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Prior Restraint: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prior restraint)

noun:  (law) A restriction on expression imposed before the fact against particular speech or ideas (as opposed to restrictions against general subject matter or imposed after the fact against a particular instance of expression).

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