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Definition of embargo:

  • (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier
  • (verb) ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons
  • (verb) prevent commerce

Sentence Examples:

This power is conceived to be incidental to an embargo.

This ought to have been foreseen, and an embargo put on; for it led to trouble.

Many had their property embargoed and sold, and were ruined.

Nothing but an embargo will save us; remove it, and what shall we do?'

We are engaged perpetually in making additions and supplements to the embargo.

At all events, no sooner was the embargo removed than commerce revived.

She wanted to talk, but there seemed to be an embargo on every subject.

If so, then why did he impose the embargo on us?

He looked at the girl by him; that action was not under embargo.

Though perfect liberty is the rule, one topic is even yet under official embargo.

The embargo has proved a famous harvest to some merchants here.

This embargo business that has been framed lately is interfering with my work.

The embargo on tinned lobster should certainly have that effect.

Dreadful foolish piece of business that embargo was!

I was safe for a while against his spying, and consequently the embargo was off.

The result of the embargo was pathetic.

Immediately America would place an embargo on all trade with us.

With the embargo on cars also came a prohibition of spare parts.

Embargo and non-intercourse must bring France and England to their good behavior.

Well, well I am glad the embargo is removed.

She was conscious of this embargo now.

They help to avoid the necessity for local freight embargoes.

The administration brought forward the bill establishing an embargo.

Adams joined in reporting the embargo bill and voted for it.

Then there had been the embargo, which for a while closed the ports.

To take off the embargo seemed a declaration of weakness.

Our good doctor here places an embargo on any further conversation for the present.

"Do you understand that the embargo is general?"

This was the chief object of the embargo.

Moreover, the cost of the embargo was very great.

Even the farmers suffered as the embargo continued.

To put an embargo upon ink was, he held, nothing less than an outrage.

The Belt still isn't self-sufficient enough to be able to afford an Earth embargo.

And this embargo is just ruining everything.

There was a time when the embargo law threw our slaves out of employment.

The embargo stopped all this, and equivalent conditions did not return before the war.

You behold the masts of ships thrown out of employment by the embargo

"The embargo is the last card we have to play short of war."

The embargo being removed, Judith went straight to Nancy Card.

The Goody's put an embargo on him, and kept him at home.

That the embargo was intended as a preparation for war was frankly acknowledged.

The President went to some pains to explain to the country what the export embargo meant.

As far as he was concerned, he would have broken through this embargo long ago.

That's bondage, and it puts an embargo on the pleasant way of living that I like.

A lifting of the war blockades and embargoes hardly helps them.

"Very well, that is all right; now I remove the embargo."

"I prefer war to a permanent embargo," he wrote next day.

Whether means adopted will be to place an embargo on all exports is difficult to say.

An embargo was placed on all movement of shipping.

His course as Secretary of State, and his enforcement of the embargo, are examples.

There the disastrous effect of the embargo was not only indirect but direct.

On my entering the harbor they laid an embargo on my vessel for a few days.

In the afternoon they laid an embargo on the Price.

Comfort would put an embargo upon the party.

A patch upon his coat will be an embargo on his prospects.

There is no ice embargo on his flow of speech.

Sorry I must place an embargo on the cigars you will find on the table.

"May I ask if you have put the same embargo upon Miss Grant?"

Now the embargo had been lifted; he was once more his own master.

I only lay an embargo on your going alone.

No doubt an embargo has been laid upon that.

Wherefore I am constrained to lay an embargo on anything of the kind.

The war had been preceded by the restrictive system and the embargo.

While thus held up, another packet arrived only to be placed under the same embargo.

First thing I did was to release my wardrobe and dummies from embargo.

If her uncle should discover her marriage, he may lay an embargo upon her goods.

First of all his letters show that he never considered the embargo as a permanent cure.

How long does the embargo last?

It was not until the darkness began to break that the embargo of silence was lifted.

Among the first measures was the introduction of an embargo act.

The third, to the right to pass restrictive and embargo acts, and carry on offensive war.

Accordingly, the embargo was repealed, and the non-intercourse act substituted for it.

This embargo, we are assured, will be removed by this evening.

They aim to close the bar on the embargo.

Moves that States be forbidden to lay embargoes, export and import duties.

The direct consequence of this embargo on natural increase is terribly disastrous.

This impossibility finally lays an embargo upon the whole world.

As soon, however, as the embargo was removed, trade revived and greatly increased.

My one fear was lest my father should lay some stern embargo upon my association with her.

Embargo laid on all vessels in the Roads.

Apparently an embargo had been laid on all food stuffs.

She wanted to talk, but there seemed an embargo on every subject.

This embargo took effect "about midday; he was seized with very severe pain."

It was plain that the embargo could not be lifted that night.

Sellers his two hundred and fifty dollars, and lifted the embargo.

The embargo did not accomplish the results desired.

The embargo on pipes was not removed for many years.

An embargo was laid on provisions.

And this embargo hasn't hurt her, and it will not.

Sarah retires, and the embargo is taken off Esther's speech.

We know how to evade embargo regulations.

This was a part of the price of the embargo.

An embargo is laid on the shipping, to get sailors.

It is not the embargo which causes the pressure on the people.

Speaker, that they should, for the embargo law continues in operation until repealed.

The depreciation in price then flows from the embargo.

Gentlemen call the embargo, in silken phrase, a temporary suspension of commerce.

What prospect is there that the embargo will be removed?

No, sir; the embargo says we will not trade with anybody.

When the embargo was first laid the nation were alarmed.