EMBARGO

embargo. Embargo, n. a prohibition to prevent vessels from leaving a port, or commodities from being exported

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Em‐bar″go (?), n.; pl. Embargoes (#). [[Sp., fr. embargar to arrest, restrain; pref. em- (L. in) + Sp. barra bar, akin to F. barre bar. See Bar.]] An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail. ☞ If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil embargo.