BANNING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An official prohibition or edict against something

Synonyms:

ban; banning; forbiddance; forbidding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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)

-ing form of the verb ban