From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Lawprohibitionpro‧hi‧bi‧tion /ˌprəʊhəˈbɪʃən $ ˌproʊ-/●くろまる○しろまる○しろまるAWL noun1[uncountable]SCLFORBID the act of saying that something is illegalprohibition ofthe prohibition of the sale of firearms2[countable]SCLFORBID an order stopping somethingprohibition on/againsta prohibition on Sunday tradingExamples from the Corpusprohibition• Prohibition of drugs, they say, works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States.• As a result, reliance has been placed mainly upon case law to map the contours of the currentprohibition.• Community members are looking at tribalsovereignty as a way to get around federalprohibitions on hemp.• All reservists had a 60-day window to sign up and there was no prohibition on those who already got their orders.• Emissionlimits or prohibitions on hazardous air pollutants and effluentlimitations on toxic wastewater discharges have been adopted.• Does this mean that only this small area is to be subject to the prohibition?• The cats too, were under prohibition, confined to quarters.prohibition on/against• Soon afterwards, a prohibition onalienation was introduced: property under bequest was not to be alienated.• Another method of subordination is a prohibition onrepayment of the debt whilst other creditorsremain unpaid.• In spite of ecclesiasticalprohibitions onusury, the Lancastrians and their predecessors had certainly borrowed at interest, often surreptitiously.• Community members are looking at tribal sovereignty as a way to get around federal prohibitions on hemp.• All reservists had a 60-day window to sign up and there was no prohibition on those who already got their orders.• The bill also repealsprohibitions on local phone companies to provide video services.• It recommended that the prohibition oncontingency fees and other forms of incentive should be re-examined.• Robin Lakoff suggests that the prohibition on women using language forcefully extends to nonstandard pronunciation as well.ProhibitionProhibition nounthe period from 1919 to 1933 in the US when the production and sale of alcoholic drinks was illegalExamples from the CorpusProhibition• Another significantaspect of the meeting was the openness of debate. Prohibition was not unquestioningly supported.• For some reason, the wholeextraordinary saga of San Diego and Tijuana during Prohibition has been forgotten.• He has made more business for an undertaker than any other one thing, with the exception of Prohibition.• As home-brewing returns, some groups are striving to bring back a milderversion of Prohibition.• The license had been in his continuouspossession since Prohibition ended in 1933.• They were known as Wets, and the Wets claimed that Prohibition would result in drinkersswitching from drink to drugs.