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embargo Noun pl -goes an order by a government or international body prohibiting trade with a country: the world trade embargo against Iraq Verb [-going, -goed] to place an official prohibition on [Spanish]
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embargo noun 1. ban, bar, block, barrier, restriction, boycott, restraint, check, prohibition, moratorium, stoppage, impediment, blockage, hindrance, interdiction, interdict, proscription, rahui N.Z. Translations n embargo [imˈbaːgəu] an official order forbidding something, especially trade with another country. verbod حَظْر، حَجْر، مَنْع التَّعامُل مع دَوْلَه ембарго embargo embargo; blokade das Embargo εμπάργκο embargo embargo تحریم اقتصادی؛ منع تجارت kauppasulku embargo הֶסגֵר व्यापार प्रतिषेध staviti zabranu embargó embargo hafnbann; viðskiptabann embargo 通商禁止 수출 금지, 출항 금지 embargas embargo, aizliegums sekatan embargo (eksport-/import)forbud, embargo embargo restrição embargo эмбарго embargo prepoved (trgovanja) embargo embargo การสั่งห้ามค้าขาย ambargo 禁止貿易令 ембарго, заборона سرکاری پابندی تجارت وغیرہ سے متعلق lệnh cấm vận 禁止贸易令;禁运令 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| After submitting as long as she could to lay an embargo on the use of her tongue, Mrs. I had not yet seen it, and upon this notice of an intended invasion, I avoided appearing on that side of the coast, for fear of being discovered, by some of the enemy's ships, who had received no intelligence of me; all intercourse between the two empires having been strictly forbidden during the war, upon pain of death, and an embargo laid by our emperor upon all vessels whatsoever. I therefore place no embargo upon the return of my wife to Dorset House. |
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