embargo
- IPA[əmˈbärɡō]
美式
- an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country；an official prohibition on any activity.
- impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity)；officially ban the publication of
verb: embargo, 3rd person present: embargoes, gerund or present participle: embargoing, past tense: embargoed, past participle: embargoed
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country an embargo on grain sales the oil embargo of 1973
- ▪ an official prohibition on any activity.
- ▪ an order of a state forbidding foreign ships to enter, or any ships to leave, its ports.
動詞
- 1. impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity) the country has been virtually embargoed by most of the noncommunist world
- ▪ officially ban the publication of documents of national security importance are routinely embargoed
- 2. archaic seize (a ship or goods) for state service they must embargo means of transport
