Usually means: Prohibitions based on customs, beliefs.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. tabus: Merriam-Webster
  2. tabus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tabus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tabus: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tabu's, Tabus, tabus: Wordnik
  6. tabus: Wiktionary
  7. tabus: Dictionary.com
  8. tabus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tabus: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tabus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tabus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. tabus: Medical dictionary

(Note: See taboo as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (taboo)

noun:  An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
noun:  (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
adjective:  Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
adjective:  Culturally forbidden.
verb:  To mark as taboo.
verb:  To ban.
verb:  To avoid.
▸ Also see taboo


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