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embargo

Embargo

Spanish/Portuguese

Spanish/emˈbaɾ.ɣo/English/ɪmˈbɑːɡ.oʊ/
A word for seizing ships became the weapon of international diplomacy.

Embargo comes from the Spanish embargar—"to bar, to impede"—from Vulgar Latin *imbarricāre (to barricade, from barra, "bar"). Originally, an embargo was a government order preventing ships from leaving port.

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