Prohibition

  • 81prohibition of intercombinations — interkombinacinis draudimas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. prohibition of intercombinations vok. Interkombinationsverbot, n rus. интеркомбинационный запрет, m pranc. interdiction d’intercombinaisons, f …

    Fizikos terminų žodynas

  • 82prohibition agent — A federal officer in the hierarchy for the enforcement of the former National Prohibition Act. Not an internal revenue officer. United States v Parzah, (DC Pa) 18 F2d 1003 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 83prohibition of waste — See writ of prohibition of waste …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 84prohibition — noun Date: 14th century 1. the act of prohibiting by authority 2. an order to restrain or stop 3. often capitalized the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic liquors except for medicinal and sacramental… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 85Prohibition — noun any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal …

    Wiktionary

  • 86prohibition — noun a) An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something. b) A law that prohibits something, especially alcohol. Ant: permission See Also: prohibit …

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  • 87prohibition — Synonyms and related words: Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, arrest, arrestation, ban, banning, bar, barring, blockade, boycott, check, circumscription, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, debarment,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 88Prohibition — Pro|hi|bi|ti|on 〈f.; Gen.: ; Pl.: unz.〉 Alkoholverbot [Etym.: <lat. prohibitio »Verbot«] …

    Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch

  • 89Prohibition — Pro|hi|bi|tion [ ,prouə bıʃn ] in the U.S., the period from 1920 to 1933 when it was illegal to make or sell alcoholic drinks. A pace that illegally served alcoholic drinks during this time was called a speakeasy. ╾ Pro|hi|bi|tion|ist noun… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 90Prohibition —  (cap.) lasted from 1920 to 1933; it was brought in by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act, and repealed by the Twenty first Amendment …

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