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non-prohibitive


adjective

  1. serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
  2. sufficing to prevent the use, purchase, etc., of something: prohibitive prices.

adjective

  1. prohibiting or tending to prohibit
  2. (esp of prices) tending or designed to discourage sale or purchase

adj.c.1600, “having the quality of prohibiting,” from prohibit + -ive, or else from French prohibitif (16c.), from Late Latin prohibit-, past participle stem of prohibere. Of prices, rates, etc., “so high as to prevent use,” it is from 1886. Related: Prohibitively.

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