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embargoThe prohibition of trade with a country by another country or international organization. Embargoes may be general (a total ban) or specific (relating to, for example, technology transfer, energy supplies, or weaponry). See also sanctions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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After submitting as long as she could to lay an embargo on the use of her tongue, Mrs. I had not yet seen it, and upon this notice of an intended invasion, I avoided appearing on that side of the coast, for fear of being discovered, by some of the enemy's ships, who had received no intelligence of me; all intercourse between the two empires having been strictly forbidden during the war, upon pain of death, and an embargo laid by our emperor upon all vessels whatsoever. I therefore place no embargo upon the return of my wife to Dorset House. |
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