ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsEembargo
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embargo
Meaning: an official ban on trade with a particular country
embargo in a sentence
How embargo is used in real sentences:
The trade embargo prevented the two nations from exchanging goods for years.
After the embargo took effect, ships carrying grain were turned away at the harbor for months.
“Then an embargo on metal exports from a producing country interrupted the supply of the team's cleanest nickel.”
— from the passage The Returning Hinge
“The case had concerned an embargo barring all trade with Belvar, whose military government was under international sanction.”
— from the passage The Weight of Fifteen Years
“Public anger in Lydon pushed Parliament toward an embargo on all Varenese goods, although Voss warned that a complete trade ban would punish dockworkers in both countries.”
— from the passage The Varen Customs Crisis
Synonyms for embargo
Other words for embargo — ban and prohibition — carry the same meaning.
- ban
- prohibition
Where it comes from
From Spanish embargar 'to restrain, seize'
Memory hook
EMBARGO sounds like a bar blocking goods from going through.