PROHIBITION


Meaning of PROHIBITION in English

[noun]London Transport has announced a prohibition on smoking on buses. [C]The environmental group is demanding a complete prohibition against the hunting of whales. [C]It's my feeling that the money spent on drug prohibition would be better spent on information and education. [U]Prohibition was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was forbidden in the US.

Cambridge English vocab.      Кембриджский английский словарь.