“The U.S. government struck back by imposing a trade embargo on Cuba, blocking the sale of Cuban sugar in the United States–a devastating blow to Cuba’s economy.”

~ Fallout, Steve Sheinkin p. 131

Definition:

a governmental restriction placed on the trade of goods between countries by blocking merchant ships 

Part of Speech:

noun

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