Antonyms for embargo
ɛmˈbɑr goʊem·bar·go

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1. embargo

   Antonyms:
   permit, permission, discharge, liberation, dismissal, conge

   Synonyms:
   restraint, detention, prohibition, stoppage

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1. • Ban
   • Stop

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. embargo, trade embargo, trade stoppageverb

   a government order imposing a trade barrier

   Synonyms:
   trade stoppage, trade embargo

2. embargoverb

   ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons

   "embargoed publications"

3. embargoverb

   prevent commerce

   "The U.S. embargoes Libya"

How to use embargo in a sentence?

1. Barack Obama:

   My biggest suggestion would be for the BRT just to start having conversations on a bipartisan basis on lifting the embargo. It doesn't necessarily have to happen or even should happen all in one fell swoop, but I think you look at the economic opportunities that are provided, they are significant.

2. Charles Krauthammer:

   We gave in on the idea of them having to dismantle their enrichment, but even worse is the final capitulation, which was a giving in to a lifting of the embargo on ballistic missiles and conventional arms. I think even skeptics of the deal have been shocked by the degree of the capitulation.

3. Wayne Smith:

   I disagreed with the Cuban system and all of that, but it seemed to me we could have accomplished more through dialogue than through simply refusing to talk, maintaining a constant embargo and really just a totally hostile policy, but that's what we did, year after year after year, the same old thing, and it gained us nothing.

4. Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo:

   I think we should consider measures to freeze the assets of the central bank ... and possibly impose an oil embargo, to convince all parties that only with political stability, there can be economic growth.

5. Cuba Carter:

   [The embargo] doesn't hurt the Castro brothers, it just hurts the people of Cuba -- about 11 million of them -- who have had to suffer because of our own imposed economic sanctions.

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