(pl. embargoes) an official order that bans trade with another country synonym boycott an arms embargo embargo (on something) an embargo on arms sales to certain countries a trade embargo against certain countries to impose/enforce/lift an embargo Wordfindertradeboom, business, commerce, embargo, import, market, monopoly, sanction, tariff, tradeinternational Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivecomplete, strict, total, … verb + embargoimpose, place, put, … prepositionembargo against, embargo on See full entry Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Spanish, from embargar ‘arrest’, based on Latin in- ‘in, within’ + barra ‘a bar’.Extra examples The government has agreed to lift the embargo imposed ten years ago. We knew the arms embargo was being broken. a strict embargo on oil imports the crippling economic embargo against Haiti the international embargo against the country He opposed the US trade embargo against Cuba.
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