单词 | to be under embargo |
释义 | > as lemmasto be under embargo 2. A suspension of commerce, either general or of some particular branch, imposed by municipal law. Also in phrases: to be under embargo, to lay embargo (on), to take off an embargo. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [noun] > suspension of trade or commerce embarge1574 embargo1659 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 235 And lay an embargo of all..ships in the river of Thames. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 250 Trade was..under a general Embargo. 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 398 In order that they may take off the embargo. 1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) II. xvi. 522 An embargo on the export of provisions. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (1876) xxiii. 25 Unless it place an embargo on the exportation of capital. < as lemmas |
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