embargo
noun
[ ɛmˈbɑːɡəʊ ]
• an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.
• "an embargo on grain sales"
• an order of a state forbidding foreign ships to enter, or any ships to leave, its ports.
• "an embargo laid by our Emperor upon all vessels whatsoever"
embargo
verb
• impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity).
• "all of these countries have been embargoed by the US"
• seize (a ship or goods) for state service.
• "they must embargo means of transport"
Origin:
early 17th century: from Spanish, from embargar ‘arrest’, based on Latin in- ‘in, within’ + barra ‘a bar’.
