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Prohibition
/ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃən/ noun [U]Definition
› the period from 1920 to 1933 when the production and sale of alcohol was forbidden in the US: There was a thriving black market during Prohibition.
(Definition of Prohibition noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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