Prohibition /(?)/

Pro·hi·bi·tion

Prohibition

n.
  1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
    The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions.
  2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

Phrases & Compounds
Writ of prohibition
a writ issued by a superior tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending before it.

Prohibition

n.
  1. The period of 1920 to 1932 in the United States, during which sale of alcoholic beverages were forbidden by the consitution.