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prohibition

英/pɹəhɪbˈɪʃən/
美/ˌpɹoʊəˈbɪʃən/
01n.

禁令, 禁止

a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; a decree that prohibits something; the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment; refusal to approve or assent to