- the act of prohibiting.
- the legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption.
- the period (1920–33) when the Eighteenth Amendment was in force and alcoholic beverages could not legally be manufactured, transported, or sold in the United States.
- a law or decree that forbids.
- the act of prohibiting or state of being prohibited
- an order or decree that prohibits
- (esp in the US) a policy of legally forbidding the manufacture, transportation, sale, or consumption of alcoholic beverages except for medicinal or scientific purposes
- an order of a superior court (in Britain the High Court) forbidding an inferior court to determine a matter outside its jurisdiction
- the period (1920–33) when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was banned by constitutional amendment in the US
