Definitions for embargo

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embargo em·bar·go

Spelling: [em-bahr-goh]

IPA: /ɛmˈbɑr goʊ/

Embargo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in embargo (abegmor).

Definitions for embargo

noun

1. an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
2. an injunction from a government commerce agency to refuse freight for shipment, as in case of congestion or insufficient facilities.
3. any restriction imposed upon commerce by edict.
4. a restraint or hindrance; prohibition.

verb (used with object)

1. to impose an embargo on.

Origin of embargo

1595-1605; Spanish, derivative of embargar to hinder, embarrass Vulgar Latin *imbarricāre, equivalent to im- im-¹ + -barricāre (*

Examples for embargo

Obama has latched on to the failure of the embargo to topple the Castros as justification to shuffle the deck.

If the embargo were effective, the Castro brothers would have been doing Love Letters with the Duvaliers years ago.

But at a sign from me he took off the embargo with alacrity.

England immediately laid an embargo on the vessels of the powers signing it.

Then there had been the embargo, which for a while closed the ports.

Cuban athletes have been highly prized in the U.S. despite the embargo—and even because of it.

The question was now between the enforcement of the embargo Act and war.

There was really only one good reason to maintain the embargo: Trade with Cuba strengthens the Castros.

Boston with its environs and the interior counties were opposed to the embargo.

Most age cohorts still supported it, but those who left Cuba after 1995 were against the embargo by 58-42 percent.