Sanctions
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Sanctions is the plural of sanction. (Depending on context, a sanction can be either a punishment or a permission. The word is a contronym.)
Sanctions involving countries:
- International sanctions, punitive measures adopted by a country or group of countries against another nation for political reasons
- Diplomatic sanctions, the reduction or removal of diplomatic ties, such as embassies
- Economic sanctions, typically a ban on trade, possibly limited to certain sectors such as armaments, or with certain exceptions (such as food and medicine)
- Military sanctions, military intervention
- Trade sanctions, economic sanctions applied for non-political reasons, typically as part of a trade dispute, or for purely economic reasons, and typically involving tariffs or similar measures, rather than bans.
Other meanings:
- In a legal context, sanctions are penalties imposed by the courts.
- In a sociology context, sanction may refer to social control.
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