embargo
/ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ/US/ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/
embargo noun: an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
Noun
embargo (plural embargoes or embargos)
- An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
- A ban on trade with another country.
- Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo, an end to all trade between America and England.2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- A temporary ban on making certain information public.
- This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m.
- Synonyms:
- blockade
- A heavy burden or severe constraint on action or expenditure.
- They were delighted with the idea of their mamma having forgiven Louisa, but sorry, she thought, such a public proof of her pardon necessary as that of giving a party; for the sisters well knew how great an embargo it would lay on the purses of Helen and Georgiana;...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 44
Verb
embargo (third-person singular simple present embargoes, present participle embargoing, simple past and past participle embargoed)
- To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
- To impose an embargo on a document.
- Embargoed until after first reading in Parliament2023 July 4, “Introduction of the Lease Agreements for Retail Premises Bill”, in Ministry of Trade and Industry, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2023
Proper noun capitalized: Embargo
Embargo
- A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
embargo meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
embargo in Hindi
- a ban on trade with another country
- प्रतिबंध pratibandh, घाटबंधी ghāṭbandhī
embargo in Tamil
- தடையாணை, தடையாணை நிறுத்தி வைப்புக் கட்டளை, நிறுத்தி வைப்புக் கட்டளை, வாணிபத் தடை
embargo in Bengali
- বাণিজ্যিক নিষেধাজ্ঞা
embargo in Malayalam
- bar, ban, prohibition
- നിരോധനം, നിരോധനാജ്ഞ, വിലക്ക്, തട, നിറുത്തൽ, അവസാനിപ്പിക്കൽ
- ban, bar, prohibit
- നിരോധിക്കുക, നിരോധനമേർപ്പെടുത്തുക, പ്രതിബന്ധിക്കുക, നിഷിദ്ധമാക്കുക, നിറുത്തിവയ്ക്കുക, നിർത്തലാക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
- embargo in Kannada
- ತಡೆ, ತಡೆಹಿಡಿತ
- embargo in Tagalog
- pagpigil
- embargo in Arabic
- حَصَار ḥaṣār, حَظْر ḥaẓr
- embargo in Persian
- تحریم tahrim
- embargo in Thai
- การห้ามเรือ, การห้ามสินค้า
- embargo in Vietnamese
- cấm vận
Examples of embargo in a sentence
- What a hypocrite! He talks big about law and order but then he'll also wave an embargoed Cuban in your face!
- Anyway, with the restrictions and the embargoes, nobody wants to take that kind of risk these days.”
- An embargo is a restriction upon the transfer of specified goods, usually arms or petroleum products, to the embargoed State.
Synonyms of embargo
Forms of embargo
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | embargoes |
| plural | embargos |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | embargoes |
| present participle | embargoing |
| past participle | embargoed |
| past | embargoed |
Origin of embargo
From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from late Latin *imbarricāre (“to bar”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar, barrier”).
Words formed from embargo
Words that rhyme with embargo
Questions about embargo
- What does embargo mean?
- Embargo means an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
- What is embargo in Hindi?
- Embargo in Hindi is प्रतिबंध (pratibandh), घाटबंधी (ghāṭbandhī). See Embargo meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is embargo?
- Embargo can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce embargo?
- Embargo is pronounced /ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/ (US).
- What is the plural of embargo?
- The plural of embargo is embargoes.
Words near embargo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: embargo (page history and authors); Embargo (page history and authors); embargo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Embargo (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); embargo (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); embargo (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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