Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow. / Costly to the extreme; beyond budget. / (Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner.

(grammar) A negative imperative.

Capable of being prohibited.

In a prohibitive manner. / To a prohibitive extent.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prohibit

plural of prohibition

to say that something is not allowed

(grammar) The negative imperative mood.

plural of writ of prohibition

(law) A writ from a superior tribunal staying proceedings in a lower court. / (law, Scotland) A clause in a deed of entail forbidding the heir to sell the estate, contract debt, etc.