economic sanction
Financial diplomatic penalty
An economic sanction is a penalty imposed by one country or group of countries against another, typically restricting trade, freezing assets, or blocking financial transactions.
Sanctions aim to pressure governments into changing policies without military action: The UN imposed economic sanctions on the regime.
Often used in the plural: sanctions against Russia.
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
- arms embargoBan on military exports
- tariffTax on traded goods
- tradeExchange of commodities
- trade warRetaliatory economic hostilities
restriction · penalty · pressure · diplomatic leverage · diplomacy · freeze · isolation · rogue state · retaliation · leverage · enforcement · travel ban · compliance · prohibition · import · export · assets · blacklist
- economic controlstariff, quota, embargo, trade restriction, trade embargo
- economic protestlabor strike, general strike, rent strike, consumer boycott, picket
- trade policytariff, free trade, quotas, protectionism, tariffs
economic sanctionforeign aid
Cross-border governmental help
economic assistance · trade agreement · financial aid · development aid · humanitarian aid
economic sanctionmilitary action
Armed force by state
military intervention · war · invasion · use of force · armed conflict
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