Prohibition synonyms and antonyms

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Eighteenth Amendment
Restrictions placed upon the handling or consumption of liquor; often capital
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prescription
A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.
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volstead act
A congressional act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The US Congress passed the act in 1919; it took effect with the Eighteenth Amendment in 1920 and was repealed by the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.
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forbiddance
The act of forbidding; prohibition
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interdiction
The act of interdicting or something interdicted
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Prohibition Amendment; the Noble Experiment
Restrictions placed upon the handling or consumption of liquor; often capital
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refusal (related)
(Civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.
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ban
Strong public disapproval or condemnation intended to prevent something
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repudiation
The act of repudiating or the state of being repudiated.
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temperance
Temperance is defined as showing restraint in eating or drinking, and especially avoiding alcohol.
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the Lost Cause
Restrictions placed upon the handling or consumption of liquor; often capital
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injunction
That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.
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tabu
Taboo
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permission (antonym)
Permission is defined as giving consent or authority or allowing someone to do something.
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allowance (antonym)
Allowance means a given advantage.
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clearance (antonym)
A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
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disallowance
The action of not allowing, or of withdrawing allowance.
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inhibition
Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses.
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proscription
The act of proscribing, or its result.
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taboo
(In Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
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allow (related)
A refusal to allow
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prohibition-era
the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
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prohibitionism
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restriction (related)
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imposition (related)
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sanction (related)
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statute (related)
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use-of-force (related)
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regulation (related)
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prohibit (related)
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moratorium (related)
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the Eighteenth Amusement
Restrictions placed upon the handling or consumption of liquor; often capital
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Prohibition Sentence Examples

  • He re-enacted the prohibition of appeal.

  • It aimed at the prohibition of discrimination between persons, places and commodities.

  • Among other things, Phillips contended, during his later years, for prohibition, woman suffrage and various penal and administrative reforms. He was not always the best judge of character, and was sometimes allied in these movements with men who were little more than demagogues.

  • The numerous projects, good and bad, that were inaugurated in 1866-1875, and the various kinds of laws and charters conferring special privileges that were secured, led to the constitutional prohibition of special legislation already mentioned.

  • Prohibition arose thus, was accepted by the Republicans, and passed into the constitution.

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