forbidden

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Editorial note

Companies should have the term "buying" forbidden if DRM is involved.

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excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"

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adjective

excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for forbidden.

adjective

excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"

See also: prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten

Example sentences

Companies should have the term "buying" forbidden if DRM is involved.

All because someone is suddenly allowed to broadcast forbidden stories to a large crowd.

It is incredibly likely they were forbidden by management from answering those questions.

There were also issues of AT&T being forbidden from entering some aspects of computer business by a 1950s antitrust consent decree.

"In one fourth-grade classroom I visited in New York City, students engaged in group work were forbidden to ask a question unless every member of the group had the very same question.

As far as I know, no-one said anything, including me - and Blizzard, of course, was more than happy to comply, given the size of the market and the risk of being forbidden to do business there.

Oh, and it might amuse Yahoo employees to know that their recycling program is a complete sham -- everything is emptied into the same trash containers anyway, and the workers are forbidden from taking the cans away to cash in themselves.