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/- Cars were banned from the park all day in a bid to keep traffic disruption to a minimum.
- York tourism boats can continue to ply their trade, but rowers are banned from the river.
- We therefore, demand that the internet be permanently banned from American homes.
Synonyms
- Part of his bail condition bans him from the Hoover Drive area.
- To ban him presumably would be discrimination against people with bent arms.
- Magistrates issued the ASBO which bans him from parts of Penhill estate and includes a curfew after hearing Liam led a gang of louts who terrorised residents.
Synonyms
- Hunt supporters were today preparing a legal challenge to the ban on hunting which they claim will put more than 250 people out of work across Hampshire.
- The government of Indian-administered Kashmir is to launch a legal challenge to a ban on the weaving and trading of the world's most expensive shahtoosh shawl.
- The Times & Citizen leads with the report that the Oakley Hunt is vowing to continue despite the possibility of a legal ban on fox-hunting.
Synonyms
- But investor groups want an out-right ban on analysts participating in all investment banking activities.
- He said it was a very well known fact that the penalty for dragging the association to the court of law was a life ban from all football activities organised under the auspices of FAZ.
- It notes the evidence before the domestic courts to the effect that the European countries operating a blanket legal ban on homosexuals in their armed forces are now in a small minority.
Synonyms
- Once enacted, the ban cannot be undone, even if the person has a change of heart, Severns said…
- He said soccer fans were an integral part of the soccer revolution anywhere in the world and cited cases when teams had failed to perform well once a ban was imposed on them to play in an empty stadium.
Derivatives
bannable
- I've found a way to write a bannable book but not have it banned.
- Pretty soon he's going to install a feature that automatically bans people if they even think of posting anything bannable.
- I have never seen a game in which there was a clear list of bannable offences posted on the website.
Origin
Old English bannan 'summon by a public proclamation', of Germanic origin, reinforced by Old Norse banna 'curse, prohibit'; the noun is partly from Old French ban 'proclamation, summons, banishment'.
In Old English this meant ‘to summon by popular proclamation’. The word is Germanic and also passed into French where it had the sense ‘proclamation, summons, banishment’. This lies behind abandon (Late Middle English) based on the Old French phrase a bandon ‘at one's disposal, under one's jurisdiction’; and banal (mid 18th century) which originally related to feudal service and meant ‘compulsory’. From this came a notion of ‘common to everyone’ and so ‘ordinary and everyday’. The marriage banns (Middle English) read in church also come from the sense ‘proclamation’. Bandit (late 16th century) comes from Italian bandito a ‘banned person’, and banish (Late Middle English) comes from the same root.
Rhymes
ban2
/bɑːn/- It costs 50 bani, which is about 8 cents Australian.
- Bus, tram and trolleybus tickets cost 70 bani and can be purchased at any RATB kiosk.
Origin
Romanian.