embargo.

1. An official prohibition on trade or on the release of specified information.

2. Place trade, goods, or information under an embargo.

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Words that belong together

• trade embargo
• news embargo

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The trade embargo cut off access to replacement parts.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Singular embargo; plural embargoes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, social science. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: embargoes.