embargo
pronunciation
How to pronounce embargo in British English:
UK [ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ]
How to pronounce embargo in American English:
US [ɪmˈbɑːrɡoʊ]
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- Noun:
- a government order imposing a trade barrier
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- Verb:
- ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons
- prevent commerce
Word Origin
- embargo
- embargo: [16] Something that has been embargoed has been literally ‘placed behind bars’ (compare EMBARRASS). The word comes from Vulgar Latin *imbarricāre, which was formed from the Latin prefix in- ‘in’ and Vulgar Latin *barra (source of English bar). This passed into Spanish as embargar ‘impede, restrain’, and its derived noun embargo was borrowed into English.=> bar, barrier
- embargo (n.)
- "order forbidding ships from certain other nations from entering or leaving a nation's ports," 1590s, from Spanish embargo "seizure, arrest; embargo," noun of action from embargar "restrain, impede, arrest, embargo," from Vulgar Latin *imbarricare, from assimilated form of in- "into, upon" (see in- (2)) + *barra (see bar (n.1)). As a verb, from 1640s. Related: Embargoed.
Example
- 1. Oil prices rose slightly at news of the embargo .
- 2. The broader economic embargo against cuba stands .
- 3. Congress may now start to dismantle the embargo .
- 4. An oil embargo alone cannot succeed .
- 5. The eu embargo followed tough us sanctions approved earlier last month .