bar
/bɑːr/ verb [T] (-rr-)Definition
› LAW to prevent something or someone from doing something or going somewhere, or to refuse to allow something: bar sb/sth from (doing) sth Lawyers on both sides have been barred from discussing the case in the press. The government voted to bar the import of exotic birds.
(Definition of bar verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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