Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Embargo
n. 1. A government's wartime or peacetime detention of an offending nation's private ships found in the ports of the aggrieved nation <the President called off the embargo of Iraq's ships after the war ended. - Also termed hostile embargo. 2. A nation's detention of its own ships in its own ports to promote safety and to preclude transportation to an offending nation <the embargo of all U.S. ships traveling to Iraq remained in effect until hostilities subsided>. 3. The unilateral or collective restrictions on the import or export of goods, materials, capital, or services into or from a specific country or group of countries for political or security reasons < for a time, the industrialized nations placed an embargo on all goods from Libya>. - Also termed trade embargo. 4. The conscription of private property for governmental use, such as to transport troops <the Army's embargo of the company jet to fly General White to Washington. 5. A temporary prohibition on disclosure <the embargo on the press release expired at 11:59 p.m.>. - embargo, vb.
hostile embargo.
See EMBARGO (1).
trade embargo
See EMBARGO (3).