<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The act of prohibiting.</li><li>The legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption.</li><li>Often Prohibition.</li><li>The period (1920–33) when the Eighteenth Amendment was in force and alcoholic beverages could not legally be manufactured, transported, or sold in the United States.</li><li>A law or decree that forbids.</li><li>A nonconcurring vote by which one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council can overrule the actions or decisions of the meeting on matters other than procedural.</li><li>An emphatic prohibition of any sort.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>