Meanings (ES + gloss)
embargar
To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
They have to move out of their house because the bank foreclosed on their mortgage.
evitar • impedir
To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.
One of the paradoxes of Ostpolitik, as practiced by Brandt and his successors, was that by transferring large sums of hard currency into East Germany and showering the GDR with rec…
The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.
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