prohibition

(noun) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages. Example: "In 1920 the 18th amendment to the constitution established prohibition in the us."

(noun) a decree that prohibits something. Synonyms: ban, proscription.

(noun) the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment. Synonyms: prohibition era.

(noun) refusal to approve or assent to.

(noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof). Synonyms: inhibition, forbiddance. Examples: "They were restrained by a prohibition in their charter." "A medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages." "He ignored his parents' forbiddance."