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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 2024

embargó

embargó

See also: embargo and Embargo

Spanish

Verb

embargó

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) preterite indicative form of embargar.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) preterite indicative form of embargar.

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