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embargo::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | trade embargo, trade stoppage |
| Type of | trade barrier, import barrier |
Examples of embargo
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If it is a plant component, it most likely would not be included in the embargo.
From the washingtontimes.com
It is not going to be our ships that are necessarily enforcing the arms embargo.
From the timesunion.com
It also lifted a ban on flights by Libyan aircraft and modified an arms embargo.
From the independent.co.uk
Cuba can't do business in America because of a nearly 50-year-old trade embargo.
From the sacbee.com
They noted, however, that Iran is forbidden under a U.N. embargo to export arms.
From the washingtonpost.com
In 1973, at the time of the oil embargo, we were importing about 35% of our oil.
From the time.com
They contend the leadership change provides the opportunity to lift the embargo.
From the omaha.com
Buying them runs afoul of the American trade embargo, but most are fakes anyway.
From the travel.nytimes.com
Proposed U.N. options include additional economic sanctions and an arms embargo.
From the washingtontimes.com
- A government order imposing a trade barrier
- Ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons; "embargoed publications"
- Prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Libya"
- An embargo is the partial or complete prohibition of the movement of merchant ships into or out of a country's ports, in order to isolate it. ...
- In academic publishing, an embargo is a period during which access is not allowed to certain types of users. The purpose of this is to protect the revenue of the publisher.
- In journalism and public relations, a news embargo or press embargo is a request by a source that the information or news provided by that source not be published until a certain date or certain conditions have been met. ...
- "The Embargo" is an historical poem written by the American poet William Cullen Bryant in 1808, when he was thirteen years old. Bryant was a critic of Jeffersonian political philosophy, and the work was his attempt to satirize a shipping embargo imposed by Thomas Jefferson at the time.
- An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port; A ban on trade with another country; A temporary ban on making certain information public; To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country; To impose an embargo on a document
- (Embargoes (boycotts)) Complete bans on economic exchange.
