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What does Prohibition mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Prohibition? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. The 66th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
  2. (historical) any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal
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Made up largely of family-owned vineyards at the onset of Prohibition, the industry got clobbered by the new legislation.
As the fight for Prohibition showed, the social gospel leaders cared about whether people drank or didn't drink.
Like the first Prohibition in the 1920s, an underground industry in alcohol had sprung up, and organized crime grew more powerful.
Prohibition in the 1920s created a market for cheap versions of alcoholic products, such as bathtub gin.
The cases date back to the 1920s, when Prohibition created an illicit trade in alcohol.
Politicians who argued to overturn Prohibition in the United States used this argument.

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