Synonyms for embargo
ɛmˈbɑr goʊem·bar·go

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1. embargo

   Synonyms:
   restraint, detention, prohibition, stoppage

   Antonyms:
   permit, permission, discharge, liberation, dismissal, conge

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1. embargo, trade embargo, trade stoppageverb

   a government order imposing a trade barrier

   Synonyms:
   trade stoppage, trade embargo

2. embargoverb

   ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons

   "embargoed publications"

3. embargoverb

   prevent commerce

   "The U.S. embargoes Libya"

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1. • Ban
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1. embargonoun

   Synonyms:
   prohibition (of vessels to leave port)

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1. List of paraphrases for "embargo":

   blockade, embargoes, lock-up, ban, lock, locking, siege, blocking, seizure, prohibition, blockage

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1. Joe Biden:

   This has just been so shocking to all of us, in the face of uncertainty, he is unshakable, and I hope you saw that in the State of the Union and when he was on yesterday when he was talking about the oil embargo.

2. Marc Short:

   I think that' locked and loaded' is a broad term and talks about the realities that we're all far safer and more secure domestically from energy independence, this is not the 1970s oil embargo. It's not 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait. We're now a net oil exporter, which means that the American market is much better protected.

3. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   It may be called embargo, but it also simply may be called a moral when you refuse to give money to a terrorist.

4. President Barack Obama:

   It's time to lift the embargo, but even if we lifted the embargo tomorrow, Cubans would not realize their potential without continued change here in Cuba.

5. Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Dayri:

   Libya needs a decisive stance from the international community to help us build or national army's capacity and this would come through a lifting of the embargo on weapons so our army can receive materiel and weapons so as to deal with this rampant terrorism.