0 an order to temporarily stop something, especially trading or giving information:
1 to officially stop trading with another country:
2 a government order to temporarily stop trading certain goods or with certain countries:
3 an official order to stop trading with a particular country or in particular goods:
put/place an embargo on sth We should place an embargo on the purchase of any diamonds originating from the region until a review can be carried out.
an embargo against sb/sth He has asked for an end to the arms embargo against his government.
an economic/international embargo
impose/enforce/tighten an embargo The U.N. Security Council imposed an embargo after the invasion.
lift/end/ease an embargo We should lift the embargo and open up trade opportunities that relate to food and medicines.
break/violate/defy an embargo Ships found to be breaking the embargo are sent to a holding area.
4 to officially stop trade in a particular product or to a particular country:
The health effects of economic sanctions and embargoes: the role of health professionals.
They are expected to uphold the boycott and embargoes.
We are of the opinion that such secondary embargoes are illegal in international law.
The mechanisms for ensuring observance of these embargoes must also be tightened up.
Penal measures should also be introduced for transit countries that violate arms embargos.
There are also shocking examples in terms of sanctions and embargoes.
Safeguarding supplies is all very well, but let us do it as far as we can by the old policy of putting on embargoes.
I should welcome going forward little by little, by lifting such embargoes and controls as can be safely disposed of.
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(尤指暫時禁止貿易或提供消息的)禁令,禁運, 限制, 禁止與(另一國家)通商…
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