Sanctions, plural of sanction, punishment or permission depending on context; contronym; may also refer to: Economic sanctions, typically a ban on trade, possibly limited to certain sectors such as armaments, or with certain exceptions (such as food and medicine), International sanctions, coercive measures adopted by a country or group of countries against another state or indiviviual(s) in order to elicit a change in their behaviour, Pragmatic sanction, historically, a sovereign's solemn decree on a matter of primary importance and has the force... read more