embargo

From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from late Latin *imbarricāre (“to bar”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar, barrier”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ

embargo (plural embargoes or embargos)

1. An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
2. A ban on trade with another country.
   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:

     Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo, an end to all trade between America and England.

3. A temporary ban on making certain information public.

   This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m.

4. A heavy burden or severe constraint on action or expenditure.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 44:

     They were delighted with the idea of their mamma having forgiven Louisa, but sorry, she thought, such a public proof of her pardon necessary as that of giving a party; for the sisters well knew how great an embargo it would lay on the purses of Helen and Georgiana;...

• (blocking seaport activity): blockade (often metonymically synonymous)

embargo (third-person singular simple present embargoes, present participle embargoing, simple past and past participle embargoed)

1. (transitive) To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
2. (transitive) To impose an embargo on a document.
   • 2023 July 4, “Introduction of the Lease Agreements for Retail Premises Bill”, in Ministry of Trade and Industry‎^[1]:

     Embargoed until after first reading in Parliament

• Bergamo

embargo f

1. embargo

From Spanish embargo.

embargo

1. embargo.

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Borrowed from Spanish embargo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛmbarɡo]
• Hyphenation: em‧bar‧go

embargo n

1. embargo (an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port)
2. embargo (a ban on trade with another country)

• “embargo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “embargo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Spanish embargo or French embargo (itself from Spanish), from Spanish embargar (“to arrest”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛmˈbɑr.ɣoː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: em‧bar‧go

embargo n (plural embargo's, diminutive embargootje n)

1. embargo (order prohibiting ships from leaving port)
2. embargo (ban on trade with another country)

   Synonym: handelsembargo

3. embargo (temporary ban or restriction on making certain information public)

• handelsembargo

• Afrikaans: embargo
• → Indonesian: embargo

• IPA^(key): /emˈbarɡo/
• Rhymes: -arɡo
• Hyphenation: em‧bar‧go

embargo (accusative singular embargon, plural embargoj, accusative plural embargojn)

1. embargo

From Spanish embargo.

• IPA^(key): /emˈb̥ɑrɡ̊o/, [emˈb̥ɑrɡ̊o]
• Rhymes: -ɑrɡo
• Hyphenation: em‧bar‧go

embargo (genitive embargo, partitive embargot)

1. embargo (ban on the export or import of goods)
2. embargo (order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port)

Declension of embargo (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		embargo	embargod
accusative	nom.
	gen.	embargo
genitive			embargode
partitive		embargot	embargosid
illative		embargosse	embargodesse
inessive		embargos	embargodes
elative		embargost	embargodest
allative		embargole	embargodele
adessive		embargol	embargodel
ablative		embargolt	embargodelt
translative		embargoks	embargodeks
terminative		embargoni	embargodeni
essive		embargona	embargodena
abessive		embargota	embargodeta
comitative		embargoga	embargodega

• embargo in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “embargo”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From Spanish embargo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈembɑrɡo/, [ˈe̞mbɑ̝rɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -embɑrɡo
• Syllabification^(key): em‧bar‧go
• Hyphenation^(key): em‧bar‧go

embargo

1. embargo

• “embargo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.baʁ.ɡo/

• Audio:

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embargo m (plural embargos)

1. embargo

• “embargo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

embargo (plural embargi)

1. embargo

From Dutch embargo, from Spanish embargo or French embargo (itself from Spanish), from Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra.

• IPA^(key): [ɛmˈbarɡo]
• Hyphenation: èm‧bar‧go

embargo (plural embargo-embargo)

1. embargo:
   1. an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
   2. a ban on trade with another country
   3. a temporary ban on making certain information public

• “embargo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /emˈbar.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -arɡo
• Hyphenation: em‧bàr‧go

embargo m (plural embarghi)

1. embargo

• Bergamo, gambero

embargo m (^??? please provide the declension type!)

1. embargo

embárgo

1. genitive singular of embárgas

Borrowed from Spanish embargo.

• IPA^(key): /ɛmˈbar.ɡɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arɡɔ
• Syllabification: em‧bar‧go

embargo n

1. embargo (order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port)
2. embargo (ban on trade with another country)
3. embargo (temporary ban on making certain information public)

• embargo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• embargo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: em‧bar‧go

embargo m (plural embargos)

1. embargo (an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port)
2. embargo (a ban on trade with another country)

• sem embargo

Borrowed from French embargo.

embargo n (plural embargouri)

1. embargo

• IPA^(key): [ˈembarɡɔ]

embargo n

1. embargo

• “embargo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /emˈbaɾɡo/ [ẽmˈbaɾ.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɾɡo
• Syllabification: em‧bar‧go

Deverbal from embargar.

embargo m (plural embargos)

1. embargo
2. trade embargo
3. distraint
4. seizure, freezing (juridical detention of goods)
5. foreclosure
6. repossession

embargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of embargar

• “embargo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

embargo n

1. embargo

• handelsembargo
• oljeembargo
• vapenembargo

• embargo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• embargo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• embargo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)