ban

(băn)
tr.v., banned, ban·ning, bans.

1. To prohibit, especially by official decree: The city council banned billboards on most streets. See synonyms at forbid.
2. South African. Under the former system of apartheid, to deprive (a person suspected of illegal activity) of the right of free movement and association with others.
3. Archaic. To curse.

n.

1. An excommunication or condemnation by church officials.
2. A prohibition imposed by law or official decree: a ban on cigarette smoking on airplanes.
3. Censure, condemnation, or disapproval expressed especially by public opinion.
4. A curse; an imprecation.
5. A summons to arms in feudal times.

[Middle English bannen, to summon, banish, curse, from Old English bannan, to summon, and from Old Norse banna, to prohibit, curse.]

ban² (bän)
n., pl., ba·ni (bä'nē).
A unit of currency in Moldova and Romania.

[Romanian, from Serbo-Croatian bān, lord, from Turkic bayan, very rich person : bay, rich, akin to Turkish bay, rich, gentleman + -an, intensive suff.]

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is a common journalistic word, ideally short for headlines, for 'prohibit' or 'make illegal'; as such, and because of its staccato effect in speech, it permeates everyday language. In earlier periods it meant 'to summon' and 'to curse'. In the mid-20th century, the slogan ban the bomb (i.e. the nuclear bomb) gave it a special currency. It is interesting to note that one of the most common collocates of ban given in the Old English (up to 1150)C is marriage (not the institution as a whole but interracial, same-sex, and other socially controversial forms). Other things that have been banned or been under threat of banning include abortion, cloning, discrimination, foxhunting, landmines, smoking in public places, and symbolic items of dress such as headscarves and the Muslim hijab.

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verb

1. To refuse to allow: debar, disallow, enjoin, forbid, inhibit, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, taboo. See allow/prevent.
2. To keep from being published or transmitted: black out, censor, hush (up), stifle, suppress. Idioms: keepputa lid on. See show/hide.

noun

A refusal to allow: disallowance, forbiddance, inhibition, interdiction, prohibition, proscription, taboo. See allow/prevent.

n

Definition: official forbiddance
Antonyms: allowance, permission

v

Definition: officially forbid
Antonyms: allow, permit

A form of life insurance purchased by banks where the bank is the beneficiary, and/or owner. This form of insurance is a tax shelter for the administering bank, as it is a tax-free funding scheme for employee benefits.

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Banks use BOLI contracts to fund ever-increasing employee benefits at a much cheaper rate. The process works like this: the bank sets up the contract, and then makes payments into a specialized fund set aside as the insurance trust. All employee benefits that need to be paid to particular employees covered under the plan are paid out from this fund.

All premiums paid into the fund, as well as all capital appreciation, are tax free for the bank. Therefore, banks can use the BOLI system to fund employee benefits on a tax-free basis.

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IN BRIEF: An official order that forbids something.

The town will ban the hunting of deer in the forest.

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For a list of words related to ban, see:

• Opposition, Disagreement, and Attack - ban: censure, condemnation

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
v. tr. - forbyde, bandlyse, nedlægge forbud
n. - forbud

2.
n. - bandlysning

Nederlands (Dutch)
verbieden, verbannen, vervloeken, in de ban doen, uitstoten, verbod, weigering, afwijzing, ban, verbanning, verwerping, spreek-/ publicatieverbod

Français (French)
1.
v. tr. - interdire, exclure de, proscrire
n. - interdit, (Comm) embargo

2.
n. - monnaie (en Roumanie)

Deutsch (German)
1.
v. - verbieten
n. - Verbot, Sperre, Bann, Exkommunikation

2.
n. - Ban (kleinste rumän. Munzeinheit)

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - απαγορεύω, καταδικάζω, προγράφω, αποκλείω, εξοβελίζω
n. - απαγόρευση, αφορισμός, εξοστρακισμός, προγραφή

Italiano (Italian)
proibire, interdire, divieto, bando

Português (Portuguese)
v. - proibir, excomungar, excluir
n. - interdição (f), excomunhão (f), proclamação (f)

Русский (Russian)
запрет, запрещение

Español (Spanish)
1.
v. tr. - prohibir, desterrar
n. - prohibición, interdicto, destierro

2.
n. - excomunión, condena pública, aclamación

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - förbjuda, bannlysa
n. - förbud, bann

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 禁止, 取缔, 诅咒, 将...逐出教门, 褫夺公权的判决, 禁令, 禁忌

2. 巴尼

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 巴尼

2.
v. tr. - 禁止, 取締, 詛咒, 將...逐出教門
n. - 禁止, 褫奪公權的判決, 禁令, 禁忌

한국어 (Korean)
1.
v. tr. - 금하다, ~을 파문하다
n. - 금지[령]

2.
n. - 공고

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 禁止, 禁制, 呪い
v. - 禁止する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) حرم, لعن (الاسم) حرمان من الحقوق المدنيه, تحريم, منع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮אסר, החרים‬
n. - ‮נידוי, איסור‬
n. - ‮יחידת-מטבע רומנית (לשעבר)‬

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