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prohibited

[proh-hib-it]

verb (used with object)

to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.

to forbid the action of (a person).

to prevent; hinder.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin prohibitus past participle of prohibēre to hold before, hold back, hinder, forbid, equivalent to pro- pro-¹ + -hibēre, combining form of habēre to have, hold; see habit

Related forms

pro·hib·it·er, pro·hib·i·tor, noun

un·pro·hib·it·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1. interdict. See forbid. 3. obstruct.

Antonyms
1. permit.

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Example Sentences

Town attorneys would be prohibited from also serving as municipal clerk-administrators, the state supreme court ruled last week.

As a result, the university is prohibited from enacting or enforcing any policy that restricts the possession or use of firearms.

While fireworks are prohibited on aircraft, they may not be prohibited in your back yard depending on local laws.

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Town attorneys would be prohibited from also serving as municipal clerk-administrators, the state supreme court ruled last week.

As a result, the university is prohibited from enacting or enforcing any policy that restricts the possession or use of firearms.

While fireworks are prohibited on aircraft, they may not be prohibited in your back yard depending on local laws.

Because of the steep, rocky terrain, biking is prohibited on all trails and allowed only on paved roads in the park.

The farmer is also prohibited from planting seed saved from a crop.

People are not prohibited from developing land in this system.

Third-party apps are prohibited from running in the background.

Any duplication or distribution of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited.

Officers are prohibited from using the benefit for certificates that do not lead to a degree.

The other two were prohibited from practising journalism for the same period.

At the peak of the closures, fishermen were prohibited from more than a third of area waters.

It's astonishing that reading, mediation, and breathing exercises haven't been prohibited.

The contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law.

As a result, the list of prohibited and permitted items is mystifying.

The war in support of prohibition doesn't decrease the availability of prohibited drugs to children.

Illinois open-records law exempts information specifically prohibited from disclosure by federal or state laws.

American troops are prohibited from doing any fighting, except in self-defence.

Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification.

Such a design for nuclear power plants is now prohibited in all countries.

Broadcasts of federal trials are generally prohibited nationwide.

In addition, the bank is specifically prohibited from financing the governments of euro area members.

Ads that use a trademark but link to a page that promotes a competing product are explicitly prohibited.

Any potentially destructive activity, such as mining, is likely to be prohibited.

Resource extraction and recreational activities such as hunting, fishing, and camping are prohibited.

Nobody is exploiting minerals or any other prohibited action.

Membership fee-based pyramid schemes have been prohibited.

They are currently indentured servants prohibited from holding other employment.

Wearing the headscarf is prohibited in government offices, schools and universities.

Murder is to kill illegally and is prohibited in all societies.

Food and drink, even the soft variety, were prohibited.

Cash bonuses based on current volumes and profits should be prohibited.

Self-loading and pump-action shotguns are also prohibited.

These vessels are not prohibited from entering ports around the world and have never had an incident of nuclear nature.

Independent access, even to camps for the internally displaced, is prohibited.

If her doctors were prohibited from removing the zygotes in her fallopian tubes, she would be dead.

What is not explicitly permitted should be by definition prohibited.

Doctors must be prohibited from owning medical facilities whose use they specify.

Lynch will be prohibited from interacting with the comptroller's office for five years.

Now, remember that free speech cannot be prohibited and that no matter where, the right to free speech must be upheld.

Unauthorised access or use of this system is prohibited by its owner and by law.

Use on citrus and potatoes will be prohibited after next year.

The orders, which were in effect for only a year, prohibited white people from living there.

AP managers are now prohibited from friending their underlings.

The use of flesh meat is prohibited at any time during the first week.

Various regulations determine what is allowed and what is prohibited in.

They were prohibited from talking to anyone about the suit.

Also, officials will be prohibited from supervising relatives or participating in a business with city contracts.

The rule, which prohibited federal financial aid for distance.

Basically, this prohibited subsidies to specific firms from the public purse.

The unpopular policy prohibited iPhone application developers from discussing their coding techniques.

Afghan public universities are prohibited by law from charging tuition.

The car-dealership industry, where online-only retailing was prohibited by law, did not lose jobs.

People are prohibited from harming either the nesting loggerhead females or their eggs.

Nearly everyone who gets a national security letter is prohibited from even disclosing that they've received one.

Non-audit work for audit clients should clearly be prohibited.

Arizona inmates successfully challenged a state law that prohibited helping inmates access the internet.

Then he won on appeal because the college policy prohibited obscene but not explicit images.

The problem is that hours are completely inflexible and that greater than minimal overtime is prohibited.

The treaty prohibited all nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in outer space and underwater.

So it's not really about recreational drug use, or all recreational drugs would be prohibited.

Students will be prohibited from reconfiguring their machines and will not be able to share files.

And then the subsequent need-based amendments in laws are not prohibited.

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Word Origin & History

prohibit

early 15c.; see prohibition.

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"For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise."

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