transcription, транскрипция: [ bæn ]
( bans, banning, banned)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
To ban something means to state officially that it must not be done, shown, or used.
Canada will ban smoking in all offices later this year.
...a banned substance.
= prohibit
VERB : V n , V-ed
• ban‧ning
(bannings)
No reason was given for the banning of the magazine...
Opposition groups see the bannings as the latest stage of a government clampdown.
N-VAR
2.
A ban is an official ruling that something must not be done, shown, or used.
The General also lifted a ban on political parties.
N-COUNT : oft N on n
3.
If you are banned from doing something, you are officially prevented from doing it.
He was banned from driving for three years.
= bar
VERB : be V-ed from n , also V n