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▪ I. embargo, n.|ɛmˈbɑːgəʊ|
Also 7 imbargo. See also embarge.
[a. Sp. embargo, n. of action f. embargar to arrest, impede, repr. a late L. type *imbarricāre, f. in- (see in-) + barra bar. (Florio has imbargo as Italian.)]
1. A prohibitory order, forbidding the ships of a foreign power to enter or leave the ports of a country, or native ships to proceed thither, generally issued in anticipation of war. An embargo may also be laid on particular branches of commerce, for fiscal purposes.
1602Carew Cornwall 19 b Had not the Imbargo with Spaine..foreclosed this trade. 1758J. Blake Plan Mar. Syst. 33 An embargo..is daily expected. 1808T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 111 The embargo appears to be approved. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) II. x. 71 The embargo was intended to injure the obedient Provinces and their Sovereign.
2. A suspension of commerce, either general or of some particular branch, imposed by municipal law. Also in phrases: to be under, to lay (on), to take off an embargo.
1658–9in Burton Diary (1828) IV. 235 And lay an embargo of all..ships in the river of Thames. 1722De Foe Plague (Rtldg. 1884) 276 Trade was..under a general Embargo. 1803Wellington in Gurw. Disp. I. 398 In order that they may take off the embargo. 1861May Const. Hist. (1863) II. xvi. 522 An embargo on the export of provisions. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. xxiii. (1876) 25 Unless it place an embargo on the exportation of capital.
3. transf. and fig. A stoppage, prohibition, impediment.
1692E. Walker tr. Epictetus' Mor. (1737) xiii, Thou on thy Feet may'st an Embargo lay. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 8 As if Religion had a kind of Imbargo laid upon it. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. xxxvii, G. complied with this embargo. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xiii. 143 An embargo on his prosperity.
▪ II. embargo, v.|ɛmˈbɑːgəʊ|
Also 7–8 imbargo. See also embarge.
[f. embargo n.]
1. To forbid (a vessel) to leave or enter a port; to lay (vessels, trade) under an embargo.
1755N. Magens Insurances II. 31 They may be arrested or embargoed. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. x. (1872) 64 Ship seized and embargoed in the King's name. 1886Sat. Rev. 22 May 697/2 To have your ships embargoed.
b. fig. To prohibit.
1824Byron Juan xv. 310 When Rapp the Harmonists embargoed marriage.
2. To seize, ‘requisition’ (ships or other means of transport, goods) for the service of the state.
1755N. Magens Insurances I. 68 If a Ship be embargo'd for the Service of the Potentate in whose Port she is. 1810Wellington in Gurw. Disp. VI. 529 They must embargo means of transport. 1879Dowden Southey iii. 48 Every carriage..being embargoed for the royal service.
3. To seize, impound, confiscate.
1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Warres vi. 34 Merchants..weere clapt up prisoners, and their Goods..imbargoed. 1798Southey Lett. (1856) I. 50, I embargoed the likeness for you. |