embargo
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▪ I. embargo em‧bar‧go 1 [ɪmˈbɑːgəʊ ǁ -ˈbɑːrgoʊ] noun embargoes PLURALFORM [countable]
1. ECONOMICS an official order stopping trade with a country. Governments and organizations put embargoes on countries with which they have a political disagreement:
• Union officials put an embargo on the importation of yarn by ordering dockers not to handle it.
• The UN was urged to lift the embargo (= end it ) .
• An oil embargo would also hurt Italy and Germany, the main importers of Libya's high quality crude.
2. an official order stopping information from being made public until a particular date or time:
• We need to know when the embargo on the press release will be lifted.
3. when there is a possibility of war, a government order stopping ships from an enemy country from entering or leaving its ports
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▪ II. embargo embargo 2 verb [transitive] ECONOMICS to officially stop particular goods being traded with another country:
• Many countries embargoed arms shipments to Sudan.
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A temporary action taken by one country to halt shipment of goods into or out of another country.
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embargo UK US /ɪmˈbɑːgəʊ/ noun [C] (plural embargoes) COMMERCE, POLITICS
► put/place an embargo on sth »
We should place an embargo on the purchase of any diamonds originating from the region until a review can be carried out.
an embargo against sb/sth »
He has asked for an end to the arms embargo against his government.
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an arms/oil/trade embargo
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an economic/international embargo
impose/enforce/tighten an embargo »
The U.N. Security Council imposed an embargo after the invasion.
lift/end/ease an embargo »
We should lift the embargo and open up trade opportunities that relate to food and medicines.
break/violate/defy an embargo »
Ships found to be breaking the embargo are sent to a holding area.
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embargo UK US /ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ/ verb [T]
► COMMERCE,
POLITICS »
The US has not embargoed grain exports since 1980, but dwindling supplies and soaring prices are feeding fears it could happen again.
Financial and business terms.
2012.
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EMBARGO — EMBARG Au sens classique du terme, l’embargo (de l’espagnol embargar , placer sous séquestre) désigne une mesure de force, admise par la coutume internationale, qui consiste à immobiliser temporairement les navires de commerce étrangers en vue de … Encyclopédie Universelle
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Embargo — 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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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embargo — 1590s, from Sp. embargo seizure, embargo, noun of action from embargar restrain impede, from V.L. *imbarricare, from in into, upon (see IN (Cf. in ) (2)) + *barra (see BAR (Cf. bar)). As a verb, from 1640s. Related: Embargoed … Etymology dictionary
