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   embargo

   /ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ/

   noun

   • 1. an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country: "an embargo on grain sales"
   • ▪ an official ban on any activity: "there is a complete embargo on taking photographs in court"
   • 2. an order of a state forbidding foreign ships to enter, or any ships to leave, its ports: historical "an embargo laid by our Emperor upon all vessels whatsoever"

   verb

   • 1. impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity): "all of these countries have been embargoed by the US"
   • ▪ 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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