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BANNING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does banning mean?
• BANNING (noun)
The noun BANNING has 1 sense:
1. an official prohibition or edict against something
Familiarity information: BANNING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An official prohibition or edict against something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
ban; banning; forbiddance; forbidding
Hypernyms ("banning" is a kind of...):
prohibition (refusal to approve or assent to)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banning"):
test ban (a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons)
Context examples
They confirmed that a policy banning human-caused fires between 1986 and 2015 encouraged the growth of denser forest.
(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)
Banning plastic bags and straws in coastal areas and putting in place stronger recycling programmes and beach clean-ups can help solve the problem.
(Plastic debris linked to coral disease, death, SciDev.Net)
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