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Webster 1913 Edition

Embargo

Em-bar′go

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Embargoes
(#)
.
[Sp., fr.
embargar
to arrest, restrain; pref.
em-
(L.
in
) + Sp.
barra
bar, akin to F.
barre
bar. See
Bar
.]
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
☞ If the embargo is laid on an enemy’s ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil embargo.

Em-bar′go

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Embargoed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Embargoing
.]
To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; – said of ships, also of commerce and goods.

Webster 1828 Edition

Embargo

EMB`ARGO

,
Noun.
In commerce, a restraint on ships, or prohibition of sailing, either out of port, or into port, or both; which prohibition is by public authority, for a limited time. Most generally it is a prohibition of ships to leave a port.

Definition 2025

Embargo

Embargo

See also: embargo and embargó

German

Noun

Embargo n ‎(genitive Embargos, plural Embargos)

  1. embargo

Declension

Derived terms

  • Diplomatieembargo, Handelsembargo, Teilembargo, Totalembargo, Rohstoffembargo, Waffenembargo

embargo

embargo

See also: Embargo and embargó

English

Noun

embargo ‎(plural embargoes or embargos)

  1. An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
  2. A ban on trade with another country.
    • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
      Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo, an end to all trade between America and England.
  3. A temporary ban on making certain information public.
    • This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m.

Translations

Verb

embargo ‎(third-person singular simple present embargoes, present participle embargoing, simple past and past participle embargoed)

  1. (transitive) To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
  2. (transitive) To impose an embargo on a document.

Anagrams

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Spanish embargo

Noun

embargo

  1. embargo.

Declension

References

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: em‧bar‧go

Etymology

From Spanish embargar ‎(“to arrest”)

Noun

embargo n ‎(plural embargo's, diminutive embargootje n)

  1. embargo

Esperanto

Noun

embargo ‎(accusative singular embargon, plural embargoj, accusative plural embargojn)

  1. embargo

Finnish

Noun

embargo

  1. embargo

Declension

Inflection of embargo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative embargo embargot
genitive embargon embargojen
partitive embargoa embargoja
illative embargoon embargoihin
singular plural
nominative embargo embargot
accusative nom. embargo embargot
gen. embargon
genitive embargon embargojen
partitive embargoa embargoja
inessive embargossa embargoissa
elative embargosta embargoista
illative embargoon embargoihin
adessive embargolla embargoilla
ablative embargolta embargoilta
allative embargolle embargoille
essive embargona embargoina
translative embargoksi embargoiksi
instructive — embargoin
abessive embargotta embargoitta
comitative — embargoineen

French

Noun

embargo m ‎(plural embargos)

  1. embargo

Ido

Noun

embargo (plural embargi)

  1. embargo

Italian

Noun

embargo m ‎(plural embarghi)

  1. embargo

Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish embargo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛmˈbarɡɔ/

Noun

embargo n

  1. embargo

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

embargo m (plural embargos)

  1. embargo (an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port)
  2. embargo (a ban on trade with another country)

Spanish

Etymology

See embargar.

Noun

embargo m ‎(plural embargos)

  1. embargo
  2. trade embargo
  3. distraint
  4. seizure, freezing (juridical detention of goods)
  5. foreclosure
  6. repossession

Derived terms

Related terms

Swedish

Noun

embargo n

  1. embargo

Declension

Inflection of embargo 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative embargo embargot embargon embargona
Genitive embargos embargots embargons embargonas

Pronunciation

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