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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMB`ARGO, n. 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.
EMB`ARGO, v.t. To hinder or prevent ships from sailing out of port,or into port, or both, by some law or edict of sovereign authority, for a limited time. Our ships were for a time embargoed by a law of congress.
1. To stop to hinder from being prosecuted by the departure or entrance of ships. The commerce of the United States has been embargoed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a government order imposing a trade barrier [syn: embargo, trade embargo, trade stoppage] v
1: ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons; "embargoed publications"
2: prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Libya"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural -goes) Etymology: Spanish, from embargar to bar, from Vulgar Latin *imbarricare, from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra bar Date: 1593 1. an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports 2. a legal prohibition on commerce <a trade embargo> 3. stoppage, impediment; especially prohibition <I lay no embargo on anybody's words — Jane Austen> 4. an order by a common carrier or public regulatory agency prohibiting or restricting freight transportation II. transitive verb (-goed; -going) Date: 1755 to place an embargo on

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. (pl. -oes) 1 an order of a State forbidding foreign ships to enter, or any ships to leave, its ports. 2 an official suspension of commerce or other activity (be under an embargo). 3 an impediment. --v.tr. (-oes, -oed) 1 place (ships, trade, etc.) under embargo. 2 seize (a ship, goods) for State service. Etymology: Sp. f. embargar arrest f. Rmc (as IN-(2), BAR(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Embargo Em*bar"go, n.; 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. Note: 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Embargo Em*bar"go, v. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(embargoes, embargoing, embargoed) 1. If one country or group of countries imposes an embargo against another, it forbids trade with that country. The United Nations imposed an arms embargo against the country... He has called on the government to lift its embargo on trade with Vietnam. = ban N-COUNT: usu with supp 2. If goods of a particular kind are embargoed, people are not allowed to import them from a particular country or export them to a particular country. The fruit was embargoed... They embargoed oil shipments to the US. ...embargoed goods. = ban VERB: be V-ed, V n, V-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Prohibition (of vessels to leave port). 2. Prohibition (in general), prohibitory restriction, ban, restraint, hindrance, embarguement. II. v. a. Put under embargo, lay an embargo upon, prohibit from leaving port.

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