debar

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman debarrer.

verb

  1. (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
    The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this …. 1964 May, “News and Comment”, in Modern Railways, page 291, photo caption
  2. (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
  3. (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.

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