embargo
IPA: ɛmbˈɑrgoʊ
noun
- An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
- A ban on trade with another country.
- A temporary ban on making certain information public.
- A heavy burden or severe constraint on action or expenditure.
verb
- (transitive) To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
- (transitive) To impose an embargo on a document.
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Examples of "embargo" in Sentences
- The embargo is perpetrated by the US.
- The problem, he said, was the embargo.
- The deal was in June, before the embargo.
- This para is about the 'effects' of the embargo.
- Easing the embargo is not a cease of the blockade.
- The film is set during the Arab oil embargo of 1976.
- The incident eventually led to the Embargo Act of 1807.
- The US withdrawl of aid and embargo was a blip on the radar.
- I've added another weighty paragraph to the embargo section.
- The Jeffersonian embargo of Haiti can go in the Presindency section.
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