Usually means: Ban on production, sale, consumption.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word prohibition:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. prohibition: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prohibition: Merriam-Webster
  3. Prohibition, prohibition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prohibition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prohibition: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prohibition: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prohibition, prohibition: Wordnik
  8. Prohibition, prohibition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Prohibition, prohibition: Wiktionary
  10. prohibition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prohibition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prohibition: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prohibition: Dictionary.com
  14. prohibition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. prohibition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Prohibition (US), Prohibition (United States), Prohibition (album), Prohibition (disambiguation), Prohibition (drug), Prohibition (drugs), Prohibition (miniseries), Prohibition (writ), Prohibition, The Prohibition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Prohibition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. prohibition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. prohibition: Rhymezone
  20. Prohibition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. prohibition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. prohibition: FreeDictionary.org
  23. prohibition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. prohibition: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. prohibition: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. prohibition: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prohibition: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. prohibition: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. prohibition: Legal dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prohibition: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prohibition: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
noun:  A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
noun:  A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
noun:  (history) Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
noun:  (US) The period from 17 January 1920 through 5 December 1933 in the United States, between the effective dates of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the United States Constitution.
noun:  (Islam) The 66th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

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