blockade

/blɒkˈeɪd/ noun [C]

Translation

› when a government or soldiers stop goods or people from entering or leaving a place

kuşatma, abluka

The government imposed a blockade on oil trading.711708

blockade verb [T] ›

kuşatma yapmak

(Definition of blockade noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to do something without worrying about the risk or negative results

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