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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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How much weight did he give to the corruption and violent crime induced by Prohibition?
Enforcing Prohibition was so onerous we had to repeal the very constitutional amendment the zealots encouraged us to pass.
As the fight for Prohibition showed, the social gospel leaders cared about whether people drank or didn't drink.
After Prohibition was repealed, brandy remained a relatively ordinary product although its commercial importance grew over the decades.
The cases date back to the 1920s, when Prohibition created an illicit trade in alcohol.
Made up largely of family-owned vineyards at the onset of Prohibition, the industry got clobbered by the new legislation.

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