embargo

Other forms of embargo

plural

embargoes

past tense

embargoed·

present participle

embargoing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about embargo

What does embargo mean?

embargo means "ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in embargo?

embargo has 3 syllables: em-bar-go. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ɛmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/.

What is another word for embargo?

Close synonyms include trade embargo, trade stoppage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is embargo a common word?

embargo is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.