Word.ws English Dictionary

embargoing

embargoing is the present participle and gerund of embargo.

Meaning of embargo

Verb

embargo (third-person singular simple present embargoes, present participle embargoing, simple past and past participle embargoed)

  1. (transitive) To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
  2. (transitive) 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

See all 7 meanings of embargo

Questions about embargoing

What is embargoing the present participle and gerund of?
Embargoing is the present participle and gerund of embargo.

Words near embargoing in the dictionary

  1. embarges
  2. embarging
  3. embargo
  4. embargoed
  5. embargoes
  6. embargoing
  7. embargoist
  8. embargoists
  9. embargos
  10. embark
  11. embarkation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: embargoing (page history and authors); embargo (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “embargoing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/embargoing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.