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Embargo

Embargo Meaning & Definition
Embargo Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Embargo?

[n] a government order imposing a trade barrier
[v] prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Lybia"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Embargo: trade embargo | trade stoppage

Related Terms | Find terms related to Embargo: ban | bar | bar out | barrier | barring | block | blockade | blockage | boycott | cease | cessation | check | circumscription | contraband | count out | cut off | debar | debarment | debarring | demarcation | denial | deny | disallow | disallowance | Eighteenth Amendment | enjoin | exception | exclude | exclude from | exclusion | forbid | forbiddance | forbidden fruit | forbidding | freeze out | hinder | hindrance | hold back | hold up | ignore | impede | impediment | inadmissibility | index | index expurgatorius | index librorum prohibitorum | inhibit | inhibition | injunction | interdict | interdiction | interdictum | keep out | law | leave out | lock out | lockout | narrowing | nonadmission | no-no | omission | omit | ostracize | outlaw | pass over | preclude | preclusion | prevent | prevention | prohibit | prohibition | Prohibition Party | prohibitory injunction | proscribe | proscription | refusal | refuse | reject | rejection | relegate | relegation | repress | repression | repudiate | repudiation | restrain | restraint | restrict | restriction | restrictive covenants | retard | rule out | ruling out | say no to | send to Coventry | shut out | statute | stop | stoppage | sumptuary laws | suppress | suppression | taboo | Volstead Act | zoning | zoning laws

See Also | block | halt | import barrier | kibosh | stop | trade barrier

Embargo In Webster's Dictionary

\Em*bar"go\, n.; pl. {Embargoes}. [Sp., fr. embargar to arrest, restrain; pref. em- (L. in) + Sp. barra bar, akin to F. barre bar. See {Bar}.] An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail. Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil embargo.
\Em*bar"go\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embargoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Embargoing}.] To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.

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