1. An official prohibition or edict against something
   - ban, forbiddance, forbidding

1. Forbid the public distribution of(a movie or a newspaper)
   - censor 
2. Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
   "Smoking is banned in this building" 
3. Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
   - banish 
4. Expel from a community or group
   - banish, ostracize, ostracise [Brit], shun, cast out, blackball

Derived forms: bannings

Type of: criminalise [Brit], criminalize, disallow, expel, forbid, illegalise [Brit], illegalize, interdict, kick out, nix [N. Amer], outlaw, prohibit, prohibition, proscribe, throw out, veto

Encyclopedia: Ban Ban, Murree

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