embargo

Instead he [Jefferson] proposed an embargo, an end to all trade between America and England.

This copy of the federal budget is under embargo until 2 p.m.

They were delighted with the idea of their mamma having forgiven Louisa, but sorry, she thought, such a public proof of her pardon necessary as that of giving a party; for the sisters well knew how great an embargo it would lay on the purses of Helen and Georgiana;...