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How to pronounce “prohibitive”
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Pronunciation guide for prohibitive
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of prohibitive with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- It's time for the law to protect victims of gender violence
as a prohibitive form of sex discrimination.
- Definition summary
- Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce prohibitive
It's time for the law to protect victims of gender violence
as a prohibitive form of sex discrimination.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “prohibitive”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
- Requiring an unreasonable or impractical effort.
- Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
- (US) Being the presumptive or likely winner of a contest.
- [Noun]
- (grammar) A negative imperative.
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