Sanctions

Sanctions, plural of sanction, permission depending on context; contronym; may also refer to:

Involving countries:

• Economic sanctions, typically a ban on trade, possibly limited to certain sectors such as armaments, or with certain exceptions (such as food and medicine).

• Trade sanctions, a type of economic sanction 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

• International sanctions, coercive measures adopted by a country or group of countries against another state or individual(s) in order to elicit a change in their behavior.
• Pragmatic sanction, historically, a sovereign's solemn decree on a matter of primary importance and has the force of fundamental law.

In other uses:

• Sanctions (law), penalties imposed by courts
• Sanctions, mechanisms of social control
• A sanctioned name is a special name in mycology