0 the act of officially not allowing something, or an order that does this: --
1 the period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was not allowed in the US --
2 In the US, Prohibition was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was illegal. --
3 the period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was forbidden in the US: --
4 a law or rule that officially stops something from being done, or the fact of not being allowed by official rules or laws: --
a prohibition against/on sth There is a prohibition on disclosing information.
The regulations spell out the prohibition of age discrimination in the workplace.
Interestingly, the human rights framework within which challenges to such prohibitions have been brought, further entrenches this public/private separation.
They were not interpreted as a blanket prohibition on the display of feelings.
Only "wrongs done to the victim" are candidates for criminal prohibition.
The second is the conventional assumption that the segmental exponents of morphemes are present in surface representations, unless some specific prohibition dictates otherwise.
The recent prohibition on all gifts from drug companies to doctors by several major medical schools illustrates this safe course.
Just governance presupposes the guidance of behavior, and the issuing of prohibitions is necessary for such guidance.
These prohibitions were brought about by recognizing that the required miraculous activity was in fact under jurisdiction of causal natural laws.
Provision is necessary for alternative means of transportation so that a driving prohibition does not lead to social isolation and frustration.