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to embargoed

to embargoed

6.2
To officially stop trade or the release of information, goods and services
  • verb
  • /ɪmˈbɑrɡoʊd/
  • Formal
translation icon : embargar
  • The government decided to embargo all imports from that nation due to human rights violations.

Who, if the person who is embargoing their sex does that, they can't go somewhere else like you could.

Examples

  • The organization chose to embargo the report until further investigations were completed.

  • I'm the banker and I embargo everything.

  • Who, if the person who is embargoing their sex does that, they can't go somewhere else like you could.

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  • In response to the crisis, the United Nations placed an embargo on arms sales to the affected country.

Synonyms

to ban
vsto embargoed
  • Formal
484 1.4

To officially stop someone from doing something by law or rule

is specific to trade or stopping release rather than a general prohibition
to embargo
vsto embargoed
  • Formal
1 7.0

To stop trade with a country or limit goods sold to it

also prevents releasing information, goods, or services beyond trade restrictions

Antonyms

to release
925 1.8

To make a product or information available to the public

How Strict

to embargoed
  • Formal
6.2
to ban
  • Formal
484 1.4
to block
∞ 3.0
to restrict
361 3.1
to limit
∞ 2.1

Surface Forms

embargo infinitive
embargoed past
embargoed past participle
embargoing present participle
embargoes third person singular

Morphology

embargoed = embargo (transparent) = embargo + ed

Regular past-tense/past-participle formation from the verb 'embargo'; the meaning as a past action is directly predictable.

Etymology

Embargoed comes from the Spanish embargar, meaning 'to block' or 'to seize', and was used when authorities stopped trade or held goods. So to embargo something is to officially stop its trade or to prevent the release of goods or information.