trade stoppage

1. 1.

   a government order imposing a trade barrier

   Synonymsembargotrade embargo

   Broadertrade barrier

Questions about trade stoppage

What does trade stoppage mean?

trade stoppage means "a government order imposing a trade barrier".

What is another word for trade stoppage?

Close synonyms include embargo, trade embargo. 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 trade stoppage a common word?

trade stoppage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.