Embargo vs Blacklist - What's the difference?
embargo | blacklist |
An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
A ban on trade with another country.
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A temporary ban on making certain information public.
* This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m.
To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
To impose an embargo on a document.
(legal) A list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.
To place on a ; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
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As verbs the difference between embargo and blacklist
is that embargo is while blacklist is to place on a ; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.As a noun blacklist is
(legal) a list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.embargo
English
(wikipedia embargo)Noun
(en-noun)- Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo , an end to all trade between America and England.
Verb
Anagrams
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----blacklist
English
(wikipedia blacklist)Noun
(en noun)- The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
Antonyms
* greylist * whitelistVerb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}