Usually means: Official ban on trade, communication.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. embargo: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. embargo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embargo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embargo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embargo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Embargo, embargo: Wordnik
  7. embargo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. embargo: Wiktionary
  9. embargo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. embargo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. embargo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. embargo: Dictionary.com
  13. embargo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. embargo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Embargo (academic publishing), Embargo (disambiguation), Embargo (film), Embargo, The Embargo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Embargo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. embargo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. embargo: Rhymezone
  19. Embargo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. embargo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Embargo: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. embargo: Free Dictionary
  23. embargo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. embargo: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. embargo: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Embargo: bizterms.net
  8. Embargo: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  9. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  10. Embargo: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Embargo: Investopedia
  13. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  14. embargo: Legal dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embargo: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Embargo (journalism): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. embargo: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embargo: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  2. Embargo: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See embargoed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
noun:  A ban on trade with another country.
noun:  A temporary ban on making certain information public.
noun:  A heavy burden or severe constraint on action or expenditure.
verb:  (transitive) To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
verb:  (transitive) To impose an embargo on a document.
noun:  A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.

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