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In its scramble for revenue sources in a place where tax increases are verboten, the province did hike the so-called sin taxes on tobacco and alcohol in order to add another $250-million to its coffers.

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  • The body language says: conversation-verboten, I want to think. —  F ;SF - vol 100 issue 04 - April 2001
  • Its revert without explanation that are verboten (Ive recently realised!) .. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Not knowing it's verboten, VP is caught using Bob Rubin's private bathroom. —  Dealbreaker
  • Now if someone could just post a YouTube clip of Bleeth's bitchy Heather telling Lourdes Benedicto's Samantha that interoffice romances are "strictly verboten," I could die a happy man. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • For only one market is the Atom entirely verboten: server computers. —  Latest from Computerworld
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  1. German, past participle of verbieten, to forbid, from Middle High German, from Old High German farbiotan; see bheudh- in Indo-European roots.
 

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