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embargo
[ em-bahr-goh ]
noun
- any restriction imposed upon commerce by edict, especially against a certain country as a penalty or to induce compliance with demands or legal obligations:
The United Nations fact-finding mission recommended the imposition of an arms embargo and other targeted economic sanctions on the rogue state.
The software may not be exported into any country with which the United States maintains a trade embargo prohibiting the shipment of goods.
- an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
- an injunction from a government commerce agency to refuse freight for shipment, as in case of congestion or insufficient facilities.
- a restraint or hindrance; prohibition:
A one-year embargo on her published dissertation allowed only the title, abstract, and citation information to be released to the public.
Synonyms: , , ,
verb (used with object)
- to impose an embargo on.
embargo
/ ɛˈɑːɡəʊ /
noun
- a government order prohibiting the departure or arrival of merchant ships in its ports
- any legal stoppage of commerce
an embargo on arms shipments
- a restraint, hindrance, or prohibition
verb
- to lay an embargo upon
- to seize for use by the state
embargo
- A governmental restriction on trade for political purposes. The objective is to put pressure on other governments by prohibiting exports to or imports from those countries.
Other 51Թ Forms
- ··· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of embargo1
Example Sentences
After the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese troops on April 30, 1975, the U.S. imposed a trade and economic embargo on all of Vietnam, leaving the country both war-damaged and cash-strapped.
In 1994, the U.S. lifted its trade embargo against Vietnam, and resumed diplomatic ties the following year.
“I see, I know and I follow it, but I’m embargoed to say nothing. The public, though — there will be quite a reaction, I’ll say.”
When then-President Bill Clinton announced the end of a U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam in 1994, hundreds of people rallied on Bolsa Avenue, Little Saigon’s main drag, to decry the decision.
It reveals a chain of lax laws, absent checks and suspected corruption used by traffickers to bypass a UN embargo.
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