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Word entry · 7 letters

embargo

Best crossword clue

"Trade ban"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted abegmorStarts with EEnds with O1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. An official restriction on trade or movement.

Word origin

From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from late Latin *imbarricāre (“to bar”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar, barrier”).

Used in a sentence

  • Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo, an end to all trade between America and England.
  • This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m.
  • Embargoed until after first reading in Parliament

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