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Embargo vs Veto - What's the difference?

embargo | veto |

As a verb embargo

is .

As a noun veto is

vet (profession).

embargo

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port.
  • A ban on trade with another country.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
  • Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo , an end to all trade between America and England.
  • A temporary ban on making certain information public.
  • * This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m.
  • Verb

  • To impose an embargo on trading certain goods with another country.
  • To impose an embargo on a document.
  • veto

    English

    (wikipedia veto)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  • An invocation of that right.
  • An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
  • * George Eliot
  • This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To use a against.
  • Anagrams

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