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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
embargo
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a trade embargo (=an official order to stop trade with another country)
▪ Delegates urged the US government to lift its trade embargo against Vietnam.
lift a restriction/an embargo/sanctions etc
▪ The government plans to lift its ban on cigar imports.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
arab
▪ That compares with 10 percent in 1973, the year of the first Arab oil embargo.
economic
▪ In a world reluctant to use weapons or risk troops, economic embargoes are one of the few punitive alternatives.
international
▪ The deal violated international arms embargoes.
■ NOUN
oil
▪ Work is now proceeding within the United Nations to secure further action, most notably perhaps the oil embargo.
▪ The oil embargo of 1973 was followed by another in 1978.
▪ The United Kingdom opposed sending a peacekeeping force because it represented a long-term commitment but suggested an oil embargo.
▪ The younger ones remember Watergate, the oil embargo and a contracting economy.
▪ That compares with 10 percent in 1973, the year of the first Arab oil embargo.
▪ This era ended with the first oil embargo.
trade
▪ At the same time, international interests would like to ease the sanctions regime, particularly the trade embargo.
▪ Many officials in Hanoi had hoped the lifting of the trade embargo in February 1994 would lead to quicker economic gain.
▪ That cooperation was crucial for the Clinton administration to win congressional support to lift a wartime trade embargo and normalize diplomatic relations.
▪ There is no United Kingdom trade embargo.
▪ However, a general trade embargo would not be effective and would require international support, which is not in prospect at present.
▪ They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year.
■ VERB
impose
▪ This was a great mistake, because in 1973 the Arabs did impose an embargo and made it stick.
lift
▪ That cooperation was crucial for the Clinton administration to win congressional support to lift a wartime trade embargo and normalize diplomatic relations.
▪ Moakley urged President Clinton to lift the embargo in a letter last April.
▪ The minister said prospects for lifting the embargo at present are better than any other time in the past.
▪ Kenneth Haley, an economist for Chevron, supported lifting the embargo on principle but said both sides have exaggerated the impact.
▪ Many officials in Hanoi had hoped the lifting of the trade embargo in February 1994 would lead to quicker economic gain.
▪ But has anyone thought how lifting that embargo would affect another outstanding industry in the Red River Valley: the sugar industry?
place
▪ Venice had placed an embargo on Bosphorus trade and was hesitant even over her Alexandria fleet.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
raise a siege/embargo
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an embargo on British beef
▪ The government has imposed an arms embargo on countries involved in international terrorism.
▪ There was a relaxation of the American trade embargo.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time, international interests would like to ease the sanctions regime, particularly the trade embargo.
▪ It was past midnight and the embargo had gone.
▪ Kenneth Haley, an economist for Chevron, supported lifting the embargo on principle but said both sides have exaggerated the impact.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embargo

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 ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil embargo.

Embargo

Embargo \Em*bar"go\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embargoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Embargoing.] To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
embargo

"order forbidding ships from certain other nations from entering or leaving a nation's ports," 1590s, from Spanish embargo "seizure, arrest; embargo," noun of action from embargar "restrain, impede, arrest, embargo," from Vulgar Latin *imbarricare, from assimilated form of in- "into, upon" (see in- (2)) + *barra (see bar (n.1)). As a verb, from 1640s. Related: Embargoed.

Wiktionary
embargo

n. 1 An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port. 2 A ban on trade with another country. 3 A temporary ban on making certain information public. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country. 2 (context transitive English) To impose an embargo on a document.

WordNet
embargo
  1. n. a government order imposing a trade barrier [syn: trade embargo, trade stoppage]

  2. v. ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons; "embargoed publications"

  3. prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Lybia"

  4. [also: embargoes (pl)]

Wikipedia
Embargo (film)

Embargo is a 2010 film that is an adaptation of a tale included in the 1978 Quasi Object by the Portuguese writer José Saramago.

Embargo

An embargo (from the Spanish embargo, meaning hindrance, obstruction, etc. in a general sense, a trading ban in trade terminology and literally " distraint" in juridic parlance) is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country or a group of countries. Embargoes are considered strong diplomatic measures imposed in an effort, by the imposing country, to elicit a given national-interest result from the country on which it is imposed. Embargoes are similar to economic sanctions and are generally considered legal barriers to trade, not to be confused with blockades, which are often considered to be acts of war.

Embargoes can mean limiting or banning export or import, creating quotas for quantity, imposing special tolls, taxes, banning freight or transport vehicles, freezing or seizing freights, assets, bank accounts, limiting the transport of particular technologies or products (high-tech) for example CoCom during the cold-war.

In response to embargoes, an independent economy or autarky often develops in an area subjected to heavy embargo. Effectiveness of embargoes is thus in proportion to the extent and degree of international participation.

Embargo (academic publishing)

In academic publishing, an embargo is a period during which access to academic journals is not allowed to users who have not paid for access (or have access through their institution). The purpose of this is to ensure publishers have revenue to support their activities, although the impact of embargoes on publishers is hotly debated, with some studies finding no impact but publisher experience indicates otherwise. A 2012 survey of libraries by the Association of Learned, Professional, and Society Publishers on the likelihood of journal cancellations in cases where most of the content was made freely accessible after six months suggests there would be a major negative impact on subscriptions, but this result has been debated.

Various types exist:

  • A 'moving wall' is a fixed period of months or years.
  • A fixed date is a particular time point that does not change.
  • A current year (or other period) is setting a time point on Jan. 1 of the current year, so that all material earlier than that is available. Although fixed during the year, it will change each year.
Embargo (disambiguation)

An embargo is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country.

Embargo may also refer to:

  • Arms embargo, an embargo that applies to weaponry
  • News embargo or press embargo, in journalism and public relations, 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
  • Embargo (academic publishing), a period during which access to publications is not allowed to certain types of users
  • Embargo (film), a 2010 Portuguese film
  • Embargo (rail), a halt to all traffic on a damaged section (embargoed track) of a rail line not safely passable at any speed
  • " The Embargo," a poem written by the American poet William Cullen Bryant in 1808
  • Baggage embargo, a limitation on checked baggage

Usage examples of "embargo".

Men came out from stores and counting houses, eager to have a hand in forestalling the embargo, and worked, adrip with perspiration, alongside stevedores and wharf rats and seamen and teamsters and farmers.

He embargoed the export of all agricultural produce, except olive oil, in which Athens was swimming, arguing that the big landowners could not sell their produce in richer markets while fellow Athenians went hungry.

The prolonged stay of the French troops in the bailiwick of Bergdorf, which had all the appearance of an occupation, might have led to the confiscation of all Hamburg property in England, to the laying an embargo on the vessels of the Republic, and consequently to the ruin of a great part of the trade of France and Holland, which was carried on under the flag of Hamburg.

The only thing he could do was to have an embargo laid on the trunk at Rome, the said embargo to last for a month.

Richard Cutts, who had lost his shipping fortune because of the embargo he had supported in Congress, had attempted to recoup his losses by speculation with twelve thousand dollars, much of it loaned by Madison.

The Saudis mobilized their armed forces, began training volunteers, broke off diplomatic relations with Britain and France, banned the refueling of their ships in Saudi ports, and embargoed oil shipments to both countries.

Many particular contracts had Hortator mandates written into the fine print, including clauses requiring the users to cooperate with embargoes and boycotts.

In Bosnia, of course, some portions of the arms embargo were deliberately allowed to be permeable and the U.

Granted, absent the two of them, Home would not necessarily put an embargo on wootz sold to the dwarves, but it might not be so easy for someone without a letter of introduction from Slovotsky or Ahira to deal there.

Determined to avoid war, Jefferson called for an embargo on all American shipping, which John Adams, like most New Englanders, saw as a catastrophe for New England, if not the nation.

Congress for passing the laws restricting aid to the contras and the arms embargo with Iran.

Izetbegovic was also in the White House on the twenty-sixth to meet with Al Gore, whose national security aide, Leon Fuerth, was responsible for our success in making the embargo more effective.

Shrewdest Ones have announced that the human commander Sulu will be executed at two-thirds orbit today, unless the Federation Council agrees to an immediate lifting of the dilithium embargo, a restoration of the rights of Beta Promethean trading ships to travel throughout the galaxy, including within Federation territory, and a penalty of two hundred and fifty thousand kerns paid to the High Conclave in exchange for the return of the spies.

Congress impose duties on importations, give drawbacks, pass embargo and nonintercourse laws, and make all other regulations necessary to navigation, to the safety of passengers, and the protection of property.

When the bill passed it was in an amended state: the amendment including the advisers, as well as the officers, who had acted under the orders of council in enforcing the embargo.