Definitions
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”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Trade ban”7 letters
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