🚫embargo

Meaning

An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.

A trade ban, restriction, or prohibition imposed by a government or international organization on a country.

Example Sentences

The government imposed an embargo on weapons exports.

The UN imposed an embargo on arms exports.

Example Expressions

lift an embargo

Synonyms

ban, prohibition, restriction, boycott, blockade, trade ban

Entry 1

ban, prohibition, restriction, boycott, blockade

Entry 2

trade ban, restriction, prohibition

Antonyms

permission, allowance, trade agreement, free trade, open market

Entry 1

permission, allowance

Entry 2

trade agreement, free trade, open market

Collocations

trade embargo, impose an embargo, embargo on goods