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Prohibition vs Requirement - What's the difference?

prohibition | requirement |

As nouns the difference between prohibition and requirement

is that prohibition is an act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something while requirement is a necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory.

As a proper noun Prohibition

is any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.

prohibition

Noun

  • An act of prohibiting]], forbidding, disallowing, or [[proscribe, proscribing something.
  • A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * permission

    requirement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory.
  • Something asked.
  • (engineering) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a)'' be deemed unacceptable, or ''(b)'' result in implementation failure, or ''(c) result in system failure.
  • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "requirement": stringent, complex, reasonable, mandatory, important, financial, medical, educational, physical, chemical * Verbs often used with "requirement": meet, comply with, satisfy, fulfill, impose, waive, abolish, drop, add, remove, fail to meet, ignore, understand, state, specify, increase, reduce, change, modify

    Synonyms

    * (prerequisite) condition, prerequisite, necessity

    Derived terms

    * functional requirement * requirements engineering * requirements analysis