Embargo is valid Scrabble Word

Is embargo a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for EMBARGO in dictionary:

VERB:

to prohibit trade by a governmental order
impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity)
officially ban the publication of
seize (a ship or goods) for state service
To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons
prevent commerce
put an embargo on

NOUN:

an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country
an official ban on any activity

an order of a state forbidding foreign ships to enter, or any ships to leave, its ports
order by a government prohibiting trade with a country
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
a government order imposing a trade barrier

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to restrain trade by a governmental order

Words related to EMBARGO

embargoed15 embargoes14 embargoing16

Words that contain EMBARGO

embargoed15 embargoes14 embargoing16 preembargo17

How to use EMBARGO in a sentence

Strict as was the embargo which kept me outside the door, I burst in, only to be seized in a suffocating grip.
Neither France nor England was hurt seriously by the Embargo, while our ships lay rotting at the wharves, and our merchants found that their occupation was gone.
On the 23d of January, an embargo was laid on all English vessels in French ports, and war was officially proclaimed.
This power is conceived to be incidental to an embargo.
But Jefferson merely demanded reparation from Great Britain, and when Congress met in December, 1807, asked for an embargo.
In that year the embargo was laid, and for more than fifteen months no vessels were allowed to leave the ports of the United States for foreign countries.
I was safe for a while against his spying, and consequently the embargo was off.
To stop treasure-ships, or to embargo merchant-ships, when difficulty was threatening, was no new idea to the British Government.
After submitting as long as she could to lay an embargo on the use of her tongue, Mrs.
The embargo appears to be approved, even by the federalists of every quarter except yours.

This is effected by the embargo, as the question was simply between that and war.
They are endeavoring to convince England, that we suffer more by the embargo than they do, and that, if they will but hold out a while, we must abandon it.
The day is not distant, when that will be preferable to a longer continuance of the embargo.
Dear Sir, I thought Congress had taken their ground firmly for continuing their embargo till June, and then war.
The further details are not yet settled, but I believe it is perfectly certain that the embargo will be taken off the 4th of March.
Of this mission of Henry, your son had got wind in the time of the embargo, and communicated it to me.
Adams called on me pending the embargo, and while endeavors were making to obtain its repeal.
As a result the government placed an embargo on a long list of articles including fuel, oils, grains, meats and fodder.
The embargo became operative under a method of license procedure, so that all shipments could be watched by the government authorities.
On the subject of the embargo, however, and the delay of assembling parliament when the country was in such critical circumstances, ministers had a harder battle to fight.
This event, together with the embargo laid on Dutch vessels, produced the convention of the 21st of May, by which the Belgian question was settled.
I presume, however, that this embargo will not be kept up.
It was generally understood that she was a widow, who had to get on in the world as best she could, and thus the public sympathy was secured, and an embargo laid upon gossip.
The war had been preceded by the restrictive system and the embargo.
It appeared to me that the embargo annoyed ourselves as much as our enemies, while it destroyed the business and cramped the spirits of the people.
He told us the other day, as a proof of his independence of party on great questions, that he differed with his friends on the subject of the embargo.
Half a century has now elapsed since the signal failure of the Embargo.
December 16, 1807, the day preceding the date of the Milan Decree, President Jefferson submitted to Congress the Embargo.
They had excepted Ulie, of course, from the embargo.
At all events, no sooner was the embargo removed than commerce revived.

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