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   Em·bar·go

   /əmˈbärɡō/

   

   noun

   • 1. an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country: "an embargo on grain sales"
   • ▪ an official prohibition on any activity.
   • ▪ an order of a state forbidding foreign ships to enter, or any ships to leave, its ports.

   verb

   • 1. impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity): "the country has been virtually embargoed by most of the noncommunist world"
   • ▪ officially ban the publication of: "documents of national security importance are routinely embargoed"
   • 2. seize (a ship or goods) for state service: archaic "they must embargo means of transport"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Spanish, from embargar ‘arrest’, based on Latin in- ‘in, within’ + barra ‘a bar’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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