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prohibition

/proh-uh-bish-uhn/US // ˌproʊ əˈbɪʃ ən //UK // (ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃən) //

禁令,禁止,禁忌,禁制

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of prohibiting.
    • : the legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption.
    • : the period when the Eighteenth Amendment was in force and alcoholic beverages could not legally be manufactured, transported, or sold in the U.S.
    • : a law or decree that forbids.

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Examples

  • The perimeter for parking prohibitions and street closures is larger than normal and will be in effect for a longer period.

  • State rules adopted last April in response to the investigation had placed stricter limits on the use of seclusion — including a prohibition on isolating students behind a locked door — but did not ban prone restraints.

  • Officials have cited China’s recent history of vaccine scandals as a reason why it continues to enforce the prohibition.

  • The trades prompted renewed calls for stricter regulation of congressional stock ownership, with proposals ranging from a ban on trading stock while in office to an outright prohibition on stock ownership for elected officials.

  • Oregon spent about $375 million on drug prohibition in that year.

  • The trade flouts a March 2014 prohibition on all exports of weaponry and military equipment to Moscow.

  • By the time Prohibition was on the menu, we were very much an “alcoholic Republic.”

  • The trend is clear: Marijuana prohibition is coming to an end.

  • While the end of prohibition brought an end to the alcohol black market in America, the ubiquity of it brought its own problems.

  • After the end of Prohibition in 1933, alcohol was once again legal throughout Arkansas.

  • Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.

  • In 1903 this prohibition to foreigners was disputed by a British bank-clerk who arrived in Manila for a foreign bank.

  • The inferior quality of this growth at length caused its prohibition by law, as described elsewhere in this work.

  • In 1914, the General Assembly voted for a state-wide law providing for the prohibition of liquor.

  • These rules might be of any kind, including (subject to exceptions) a total prohibition, then or at any future time.