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Meaning embargo meaning

What does embargo mean?

embargo

— noun a government order imposing a trade barrier — verb ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons embargoed publications — verb prevent commerce The U.S. embargoes Libya

Synonyms embargo synonyms

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embargo English » English

ban restriction prohibition boycott trade stoppage trade embargo release veto trade barrier taboo seizure requisition refuse recant proscribe prohibit prevention outlaw nix negate interdiction interdict inhibition impediment foreclosure forbiddance forbid economic blockade disown disclaim disavow disallow deny debar contradict commandeer bar abnegate abjure

Conjugation embargo conjugation

How do you conjugate embargo?

embargo · verb

Examples embargo examples

How do I use embargo in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Opposition to the embargo was growing.

Movie subtitles

Like an embargo.
Now we are threatened with an embargo of the raw materials we need.
Not surprising after the oil embargo.
What connects Watergate to the petroleum embargo?
Embargo on!
Lift embargo.
They're probably using this to get us to lift our trade embargo.
We demand an embargo and trade sanctions against Rutia.
Earth Central has implemented an embargo on arms shipments to Mars.
Because of your country's cruel embargo on Cuba, the factory that made these has shut down.
Even as a U.N.-inspired arms embargo tightens its hold on the isolated rebels, Mr. Karros vows to continue the struggle. until some kind of victory is achieved.
I need to get on that show and talk about the arms embargo!
Will the congressman vote to end the arms embargo?
If the embargo is lifted, Bourchek will be forced to negotiate. and I'll embrace him with open arms.
Any embargo?
You gonna lift the arms embargo?
Embargo, on!
There's an embargo.
The UEO embargo didn't work.
Damn trade embargo.
What does Steve Allen got to do with trade embargo?
I've been going over these reports trying to figure out how we're going to get along with all our supply shipments from Earth cut off by the embargo.
Like an embargo. How else can we take care of our own surplus.
We'll start the embargo.
Embargo, is that contagious?
Ah, an embargo on him.
Embargo on! Main valve off!
The whole penis embargo?
Can't send her a birthday greeting though, not with this embargo and all.
And then we get hit with this embargo, and I don't know what's going on there.
President Clark put the embargo around Babylon 5, we didn't.

News and current affairs

It is also important to bear in mind that in 1973, the US suffered less from the OPEC oil embargo than Europe did, even though America, which had resupplied Israel in its war with Egypt and Syria in October of that year, was the primary target.
All grandstanding notwithstanding, neither Iraq nor Iran will mount an effective oil embargo on the US.
But it is one thing for Saudi Arabia not to join an embargo, and it is another to undercut oil politics by flooding the market in a pro-US move.
The key issue here is how to lift the now almost fifty-year old US embargo on trade, investment, and travel to Cuba unilaterally, while portraying it as the result of a negotiation.
For France, lifting the embargo is also an important symbol, one that recognizes China's role in fighting Islamist terrorism.
Now we see - though the lifting of the Union's arms embargo may now be delayed thanks to US pressure and Chinese aggressiveness - that the European Union has become merely a tool for corruption when France and China draw up joint action plans.
French diplomats have of course informed China about the reluctance of other European countries about lifting the arms embargo, which was imposed after the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Persson had discovered that he lacked a majority in the Swedish parliament to lift the arms embargo on China.
Putin's show of strength involved military force and the implicit threat of a gas embargo, not monetary power (which he does not have).
For example, in response to an embargo affecting a particular country, other EU members would draw on their reserves, increase their own production, pay more for imports, or cut consumption a bit.
The 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and the Arab states caused an oil embargo that tripled prices and led to the stagflation (high unemployment plus inflation) of 1974-1975.
The Iranian revolution of 1979 led to another embargo and price shock that triggered the global stagflation of 1980-1982.
But the truth is that the 1973 Arab oil embargo was a colossal failure.
As a result, OPEC's share of world oil exports dropped sharply in the twelve years following the embargo of 1973-1974.
While the US should lift its trade embargo as soon as Cuba's transition begins, everything else should be conditional on Cuba initiating a process of resolving all outstanding issues.
Moreover, the UN Security Council should impose an arms embargo against Burma, as it has in other countries similarly afflicted by conflict and serious human rights abuses.
America's CIA director, Porter Goss, testified about a worsening military balance in the Taiwan Strait; and President George W. Bush pleaded with Europeans not to lift their embargo on arms sales to China.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a full arms embargo of Zimbabwe, a position clearly targeted at the Chinese.
For example, China persisted with its unannounced rare-earth embargo against Japan for seven weeks while continuing to claim in public that no export restrictions had been imposed.
If and when the Union lifts the embargo, Europe will be refusing to take responsibility for the catastrophe that may be approaching.
By beginning to normalize relations, Cuba and the United States have snatched victory from the jaws of a double defeat: the failure of the embargo and the failure of the Cuban economy.
Iran 's economy has struggled ever since the Islamic Revolution, partly because of the economic embargo imposed by the United States three decades ago.

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