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Synonyms for prohibition
ˌproʊ əˈbɪʃ ənpro·hi·bi·tion

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Wiktionary3.0 / 1 vote

  1. prohibitionnoun

    Antonyms:
    permission

  2. prohibitionnoun

    any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal

    Antonyms:
    permission

  3. prohibitionnoun

    Antonyms:
    permission

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. prohibition

    A bar is something that is or may be firmly fixed, ordinarily with intent to prevent entrance or egress; as, the bars of a prison cell; the bars of a wood-lot. A barrier obstructs, but is not necessarily impassable. Barrier is used of objects more extensive than those to which bar is ordinarily applied. A mountain range may be a barrier to exploration; but a mass of sand across the entrance to a harbor is called a bar. Discovered falsehood is a bar to confidence. Barricade has become practically a technical name for an improvised street fortification, and, unless in some way modified, is usually so understood. A parapet is a low or breast-high wall, as about the edge of a roof, terrace, etc., especially, in military use, such a wall for the protection of troops; a rampart is the embankment surrounding a fort, on which the parapet is raised; the word rampart is often used as including the parapet. Bulwark is a general word for any defensive wall or rampart; its only technical use at present is in nautical language, where it signifies the raised side of a ship above the upper deck, topped by the rail. Compare BOUNDARY; IMPEDIMENT.

    Synonyms:
    bar, barricade, barrier, breastwork, bulwark, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, parapet, rampart, restraint, restriction

    Antonyms:
    admittance, entrance, opening, passage, road, thoroughfare, transit, way

    Preposition:
    A barrier to progress, against invasion; a barrier between nations.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. prohibition

    Synonyms:
    interdiction, inhibition, interdict, embargo, disallowance

    Antonyms:
    allowance, permission

Princeton's WordNet1.9 / 7 votes

  1. prohibitionnoun

    a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

    "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"

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

  2. prohibition, ban, proscriptionnoun

    a decree that prohibits something

    Synonyms:
    forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, ban, banning, prohibition era, proscription, banishment

  3. prohibition, prohibition eranoun

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

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

  4. prohibitionnoun

    refusal to approve or assent to

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

  5. prohibition, inhibition, forbiddancenoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, ban, banning, prohibition era, proscription, suppression

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. prohibitionnoun

    Synonyms:
    interdiction, interdict, inhibition, disallowance, embargo

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Prohibition

    Synonyms:
    The Noble Experiment

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How to use prohibition in a sentence?

  1. Neil Roberts:

    Underwriters do still need to be mindful of the remaining restrictions, in particular a prohibition on the use of U.S. dollars.

  2. William Perry:

    The new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is an important step towards delegitimizing nuclear war as an acceptable risk of modern civilization.

  3. Laura Sheehan:

    There is no prohibition against it, so long as they can be linked to the actual name.

  4. Enkhbaatar Altangerel:

    With public awareness rising on issues of child safety, of course child protection gets better, this is not about prohibition. This is about better regulation and better protection.

  5. Thomas Mangan:

    It wasn't a disqualifying prohibition for him to own, possess or purchase a weapon as far as we were concerned.


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