What is the difference between embargo and sanction?
embargo | sanction |
An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
A ban on trade with another country.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
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.
An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
A penalty, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying the above.
To ratify; to make valid.
To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.
In transitive terms the difference between embargo and sanction
is that embargo is to impose an embargo on a document while sanction is to penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.embargo
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(wikipedia embargo)Noun
(en-noun)- Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo , an end to all trade between America and England.
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----sanction
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(en verb)- Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.