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Definition
to stop commerce or the order to do so — usually a government imposed trade barrier
- To stop Japan, President Franklin Roosevelt declared an embargo—a trade ban—on war-making materials.p. 45.7
- Soon, he'd declare an oil embargo, freeze Japanese assets in America, and finally ban all trade with Japan.p. 45.7
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