Embargo vs Blockade - What's the difference?
embargo | blockade |
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.
The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
By extension, any form of formal isolation of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
(nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
(chess) Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it
To create a blockade against.
In transitive terms the difference between embargo and blockade
is that embargo is to impose an embargo on a document while blockade is to create a blockade against.embargo
English
(wikipedia embargo)Noun
(en-noun)- Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo , an end to all trade between America and England.