What are some opposite words for prohibition?

Antonyms for prohibition
ˌproʊ əˈbɪʃ ənpro·hi·bi·tion

This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term prohibition.

Wiktionary3.0 / 1 vote

  1. prohibitionnoun

    Antonyms:
    permission

  2. prohibitionnoun

    any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal

    Antonyms:
    permission

  3. prohibitionnoun

    Antonyms:
    permission

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. prohibition

    A bar is something that is or may be firmly fixed, ordinarily with intent to prevent entrance or egress; as, the bars of a prison cell; the bars of a wood-lot. A barrier obstructs, but is not necessarily impassable. Barrier is used of objects more extensive than those to which bar is ordinarily applied. A mountain range may be a barrier to exploration; but a mass of sand across the entrance to a harbor is called a bar. Discovered falsehood is a bar to confidence. Barricade has become practically a technical name for an improvised street fortification, and, unless in some way modified, is usually so understood. A parapet is a low or breast-high wall, as about the edge of a roof, terrace, etc., especially, in military use, such a wall for the protection of troops; a rampart is the embankment surrounding a fort, on which the parapet is raised; the word rampart is often used as including the parapet. Bulwark is a general word for any defensive wall or rampart; its only technical use at present is in nautical language, where it signifies the raised side of a ship above the upper deck, topped by the rail. Compare BOUNDARY; IMPEDIMENT.

    Antonyms:
    admittance, entrance, opening, passage, road, thoroughfare, transit, way

    Synonyms:
    bar, barricade, barrier, breastwork, bulwark, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, parapet, rampart, restraint, restriction

    Preposition:
    A barrier to progress, against invasion; a barrier between nations.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. prohibition

    Antonyms:
    allowance, permission

    Synonyms:
    interdiction, inhibition, interdict, embargo, disallowance

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Princeton's WordNet1.9 / 7 votes

  1. prohibitionnoun

    a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

    "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"

    Synonyms:
    ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, prohibition era

  2. prohibition, ban, proscriptionnoun

    a decree that prohibits something

    Synonyms:
    forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, ban, banning, prohibition era, proscription, banishment

  3. prohibition, prohibition eranoun

    the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

    Synonyms:
    ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, prohibition era

  4. prohibitionnoun

    refusal to approve or assent to

    Synonyms:
    ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, prohibition era

  5. prohibition, inhibition, forbiddancenoun

    the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

    "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"

    Synonyms:
    forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, ban, banning, prohibition era, proscription, suppression

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Prohibition

    Synonyms:
    The Noble Experiment

How to use prohibition in a sentence?

  1. Paul Pelletier:

    The potential for a postal employee to not do his job and throw away ballots for whatever reason -- a non-partisan reason -- there's never been a prohibition against arresting them to send a message to all postal employees that you can't impact the election, why now ? Given what happened in Pittsburgh my suspicion is that there's a political ulterior motive.

  2. Mike Pompeo:

    The international prohibition on weapons going to/from Iran ends in October. To extend this arms embargo, the Trump admin is suddenly arguing that the US is a party to the same Iran Deal it abandoned. That makes no sense. Make up your mind, @SecPompeo.

  3. Beto ORourke:

    We absolutely need criminal justice reform and an end to the war on drugs and an end of the prohibition on marijuana and an expungement of the arrest record of everyone caught for possession of marijuana.

  4. Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton:

    If a public institution of higher education placed a prohibition on handguns in the institution's campus residential facilities, it would effectively prohibit license holders in those facilities from carrying concealed handguns on campus, in violation of the express terms of (the law).

  5. W.C. Fields:

    Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

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