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  1. noun A government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  2. noun A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation.
  3. noun A prohibition; a ban: an embargo on criticism.
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  • Although widely condemned by governments around the world, the embargo is the cornerstone of U.S. policy that has sought the overthrow of the Castro government almost since the revolution's birth. —  Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
  • A 2007 study on the implementation of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement, the document under which the EU sanctions were imposed, admitted that the embargo was a political tool designed to influence the outcome of elections in Zimbabwe as a direct response to the land reform programme. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • I mean, from day one, this embargo was about destroying the Cuban Revolution and destroying the idea that a country in this hemisphere could stand up to the United States, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. —  Democracy Now!
  • Of course, the call for the embargo is designed to be threatening so maybe we should issue a few threats of our own. —  Big Dogs House
  • Ultimately most arguments for lifting the travel ban [and the trade embargo which is clearly the real target of many in Congress] blame the U.S. for the pesky persistence of communism in Cuba. —  Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator
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  1. Spanish, from embargar, to impede, from Vulgar Latin *imbarricāre, to barricade : Latin in-, in; see en-1 + Vulgar Latin *barricāre, to barricade (from *barrīca, barrel, barrier, from *barra, bar, barrier).

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  1. Formerly also imbargo; = D. G. Danish Swedish embargo = French embargo = Italian imbarco, from Spanish embargo, an embargo, seizure, arrest (= Portuguese embargo, embargo, objection, = Provencal embarg, embarc), from embargar (= Portuguese embargar), arrest, restrain, distrain, impede, seize, lay an embargo on, from Middle Latin as if *imbarricare, block up, embar, from Latin in, in, in-, + Middle Latin barra, a bar: see bar, and cf. barricade, embar, embarrass.
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