transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmbɑ:(r)goʊ ]
( embargoes, embargoing, embargoed)
1.
If one country or group of countries imposes an embargo against another, it forbids trade with that country.
The United Nations imposed an arms embargo against the country...
He has called on the government to lift its embargo on trade with Vietnam.
= ban
N-COUNT : usu with supp
2.
If goods of a particular kind are embargoed , people are not allowed to import them from a particular country or export them to a particular country.
The fruit was embargoed...
They embargoed oil shipments to the US.
...embargoed goods.
= ban
VERB : be V-ed , V n , V-ed