PROHIBITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prohibited mean? 

• PROHIBITED (adjective)
  The adjective PROHIBITED has 2 senses:

1. excluded from use or mention

2. forbidden by law

  Familiarity information: PROHIBITED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROHIBITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excluded from use or mention

Synonyms:

forbidden; out; prohibited; proscribed; taboo; tabu; verboten

Context example:

a taboo subject

Similar:

impermissible (not permitted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Forbidden by law

Synonyms:

banned; prohibited

Similar:

illegal (prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules)

 Context examples 

Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

South End is prohibited, if you please.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He came; and he would have been delighted to shew his uniform there too, had not cruel custom prohibited its appearance except on duty.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Because horses are prohibited from grazing in designated grazing areas, to prevent them from competing for food with cattle, some farmers have been letting horses graze unattended in forests.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

Some of these reefs were in areas where fishing was prohibited and some were not.

(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)

EXAMPLE(S): prohibited medication, missed dose of study medication, missed recording data in diary, late visit (for minor deviations).

(Performed Protocol Deviation Subcategory Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

All commercial resource extraction activities, including commercial fishing and any future mineral extraction, are prohibited in the expansion area, as they are within the boundaries of the existing monument.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

In addition to the resistance showed by traditional communities, such as indigenous people and descendents of slaves; farm workers— small land owners included—still occupy prohibited territories.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

All the species listed under these categories have been granted full protection by environmental agencies, and capture, transport, storage, custody, handling, processing, and marketing of these animals is prohibited.

(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)

Some letters had passed between her and her brother, in consequence of Marianne's illness; and in the first of John's, there had been this sentence:— We know nothing of our unfortunate Edward, and can make no enquiries on so prohibited a subject, but conclude him to be still at Oxford; which was all the intelligence of Edward afforded her by the correspondence, for his name was not even mentioned in any of the succeeding letters.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)