Embargo

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Embargo \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.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: 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.
           [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Embargo \Em*bar"go\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embargoed}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Embargoing}.]
     To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from
     leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  embargo
       n : a government order imposing a trade barrier [syn: {trade
           embargo}, {trade stoppage}]
       v 1: ban the publication of (documents), as for security or
            copyright reasons; "embargoed publications"
       2: prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Lybia"
       [also: {embargoes} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "embargo":
     Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, ban, bar,
     bar out, barrier, barring, block, blockade, blockage, boycott,
     cease, cessation, check, circumscription, contraband, count out,
     cut off, debar, debarment, debarring, demarcation, denial, deny,
     disallow, disallowance, enjoin, exception, exclude, exclude from,
     exclusion, forbid, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding,
     freeze out, hinder, hindrance, hold back, hold up, ignore, impede,
     impediment, inadmissibility, index, index expurgatorius,
     index librorum prohibitorum, inhibit, inhibition, injunction,
     interdict, interdiction, interdictum, keep out, law, leave out,
     lock out, lockout, narrowing, no-no, nonadmission, omission, omit,
     ostracize, outlaw, pass over, preclude, preclusion, prevent,
     prevention, prohibit, prohibition, prohibitory injunction,
     proscribe, proscription, refusal, refuse, reject, rejection,
     relegate, relegation, repress, repression, repudiate, repudiation,
     restrain, restraint, restrict, restriction, restrictive covenants,
     retard, rule out, ruling out, say no to, send to Coventry,
     shut out, statute, stop, stoppage, sumptuary laws, suppress,
     suppression, taboo, zoning, zoning laws
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EMBARGO, maritime law. A proclamation, or order of state, usually issued in 
  time of war, or threatened hostilities, prohibiting the departure of ships 
  or goods from some, or all the ports of such state, until further order. 2 
  Wheat. 148. 
       2. The detention of ships by an embargo is such an injury to the owner 
  as to entitle him to recover on a policy of insurance against "arrests or 
  detainments." And whether the embargo be legally or illegally laid, the 
  injury to the owner is the same; and the insurer is equally liable for the 
  loss occasioned by it. Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 12, s. 5; 1 Kent, Com. 60 1 
  Bell's Com. 517, 5th ed. 
       3. An embargo detaining a vessel at the port of departure, or in the 
  course of the voyage, does not, of itself, work a dissolution of a charter 
  party, or the contract with the seamen. It is only a temporary restraint 
  imposed by authority for legitimate political purposes, which suspends, for 
  a time, the performance of such contracts, and leaves the rights of parties 
  untouched, 1 Bell's Com. 517; 8 T. R. 259; 5 Johns. R. 308; 7 Mass. R. 325, 
  3 B. & P. 405-434; 4 East, R. 546-566.