a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
Examples of 'economic embargo' in a sentence
economic embargo
Washington imposes an economic embargo.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In 2003 the invaders found a country in decay, the vaunted health and educational systems largely destroyed, thanks to the economic embargo of the 1990s.