to place an arms embargo on a country

  • 1embargo — ▪ I. embargo em‧bar‧go 1 [ɪmˈbɑːgəʊ ǁ ˈbɑːrgoʊ] noun embargoes PLURALFORM [countable] 1. ECONOMICS an official order stopping trade with a country. Governments and organizations put embargoes on countries with which they have a political… …

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  • 2Arms industry — Workers assemble pistols at the John Inglis munitions plant, Canada, April 1944 The arms industry is a global industry and business which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology and equipment. It comprises government and commercial …

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  • 3embargo — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, strict, total ▪ partial ▪ mandatory ▪ crippling ▪ the crippling economi …

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  • 4embargo — I UK [ɪmˈbɑː(r)ɡəʊ] / US [ɪmˈbɑrɡoʊ] noun [countable] Word forms embargo : singular embargo plural embargoes 1) a government order preventing trade with another country an arms/oil/trade embargo put/place/impose/lift an embargo on something: The… …

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  • 5embargo — em|bar|go1 [ ım bargou ] (plural em|bar|goes) noun count 1. ) a government order preventing trade with another country: an arms/oil/trade embargo put/place/impose/lift an embargo on something: The Senate voted to lift the economic embargo on… …

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  • 7Calvin Coolidge — This article is about the United States president. For the ship, see SS President Coolidge. Calvin Coolidge 30th President of the United States In office August 2, 19 …

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  • 9international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …

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  • 10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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