WordNet
n. a government order imposing a trade barrier [syn: embargo, trade stoppage]
Usage examples of "trade embargo".
That, at least, is one positive side effect of the Federation trade embargo.
Whether it's the details of the trade embargo of Naboo or a recipe for Alderaan stew is impossible to tell without activating it.
It was a Montecristo, the finest cigar Cuba made, and banned from American import by the trade embargo on Cuban goods.
If there were a trade embargo as I had heard, I was sure it had begun with Regal.
Few will grumble about a trade embargo of a world so distant from the Core.
That afternoon I did a little reconciliation work myself, lifting our long trade embargo on Vietnam, based on remarkable cooperation from the Vietnamese government in resolving POW and MIA cases and in returning the remains of slain servicemen to the United States.
Even though the trade embargo with Cuba had been lifted in 1985, he still preferred the milder flavor and looser wrap of a Honduras over the Havana.