prohibitions
Rules against things
Prohibitions are official bans or restrictions that forbid certain actions.
Laws create prohibitions against theft, violence, and fraud.
Religious traditions impose dietary prohibitions.
The prohibitions against smoking indoors have spread worldwide.
Capitalized, Prohibition refers specifically to the era (1920–1933) when the United States banned alcohol sales.
Official restrictions imposed
- injunctionsOfficial orders to act
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- ordinancesLocal government rules
- statutesFormally enacted laws
decrees · legislation · regulations · edicts · mandates · proscriptions · criminalization · enactments
Prohibited by law
- unlawfulForbidden by statute
- verbotenProhibited by authority
- outlawedForbidden by law
- bannedOfficially disallowed
illegal · proscribed · barred · off-limits · unauthorized · unsanctioned · criminalized · impermissible
Official prohibition on trade
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- moratoriumTemporary prohibition or delay
- blockadeSealing off a place
- boycottOrganized economic protest
veto · constraints · exclusion · clampdown · curtailment · restraint · confinement · interdiction
Not allowed
- sacrilegeViolation of the hallowed
- blasphemyIrreverence toward the sacred
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
- unmentionableToo shameful to discuss
stigma · ostracism · shame · impurity · defilement · profanity · indecency · excommunication
Forcible prevention or concealment
- redactionObscuring sensitive text
- expurgationRemoval of offensive content
- bowdlerizationSanitizing offensive literary content
- book-burningDeliberate destruction of texts
propaganda · sanitization · purge · firewall · samizdat · deplatforming · shadowban
bans
Official restrictions imposed
- injunctionsOfficial orders to act
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- ordinancesLocal government rules
statutes · decrees · legislation · regulations · edicts · mandates · proscriptions · criminalization · enactments · interdictions
illicit
Prohibited by law
banned · illegal · proscribed · barred · off-limits · unauthorized · unsanctioned · criminalized · impermissible · taboo
embargo
Official prohibition on trade
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- moratoriumTemporary prohibition or delay
- blockadeSealing off a place
boycott · veto · constraints · exclusion · clampdown · curtailment · restraint · confinement · interdiction · crackdown
forbidden
Not allowed
- sacrilegeViolation of the hallowed
- blasphemyIrreverence toward the sacred
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
unmentionable · stigma · ostracism · shame · impurity · defilement · profanity · indecency · excommunication · anathema
suppression
Forcible prevention or concealment
- redactionObscuring sensitive text
- expurgationRemoval of offensive content
- bowdlerizationSanitizing offensive literary content
book-burning · propaganda · sanitization · purge · firewall · samizdat · deplatforming · shadowban
- normsnorm, norms, standard, social norms, rule
- restrictionsban, bans, limits, limit, restrictions
- regulationsrules, rule, regulations, regulation, law
- social controllaws, rules, norms, taboos, censorship
- mandatesmandates, edicts, decrees, dictates, directives
- Aqdaslaws, fasting rules, marriage laws, inheritance laws, moral teachings
prohibitionspermissions
Official allowances granted
authorizations · allowances · approvals · licenses · permits
prohibitionsfreedoms
Rights to act unhindered
liberties · rights · privileges · exemptions · immunities
prohibitionsmandates
Authoritative commands or requirements
requirements · obligations · imperatives · compulsions · directives
- drug prohibitionLaws criminalizing certain substances
- prohibition eraPeriod of official banning
- prohibition lawsStatutes that outlaw something
- prohibition repealLifting of alcohol restrictions
- prohibition agentsEnforcers of alcohol bans
- alcohol prohibitionLegal ban on liquor