Embargo

Portuguese Meaning

embargo

impedimento

seqüestro

embargar

confiscar

requisitar

seqüestrar

English Meaning

  1. A government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  2. A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation.
  3. A prohibition; a ban: an embargo on criticism.
  4. To impose an embargo on.