Difference between Ban and Prohibition

What is the difference between Ban and Prohibition?

Ban as a noun is prohibition while Prohibition as a noun is an act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.

Ban

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To forbid or block from participation.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: prohibition A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian leu A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian леу A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

Example sentence: I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.

Prohibition

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.A law that prohibits something, especially alcohol.

Example sentence: We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

We hope you now know whether to use Ban or Prohibition in your sentence.

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