embargo

prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country or group of countries
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embargo

Summary

embargo ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (167 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • embargo is a type of economic sanction[2].
  • embargo is a type of boycott[3].
  • embargo's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Economic sanctions[4].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[5].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[6].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[8].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Second Edition[10].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Small Soviet Encyclopedia[12].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • embargo's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • embargo's different from is recorded as Embargo[15].
  • embargo's different from is recorded as embargo[16].
  • embargo's agent of action is recorded as country[17].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include economic sanction[2] and boycott[3].

Why It Matters

embargo ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (167 views/month).[1] embargo has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] embargo is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Subclass of economic sanction, boycott
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 4934810
    Agent of action country
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 13418, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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