Look up: boycott

1. Boycott
   [film] Boycott (Baykot) is a 1985 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, set in pre-revolutionary Iran. The film tells the story of a young man named Valeh (Majid Majidi) who is sentenced to death for his communist tendencies. It is widely believed that the film is based on Makhmalbaf`s...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott_(fi
   
   
2. boycott
   [Verb] To refuse to do business with, or to take part in something as a way of showing disapproval.
   Example: The government is boycotting that country because they do not like the way it treats ordinary people.
   Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary
   
   
3. boycott
   [n] - a group`s refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies 2. [v] - refuse to sponsor
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
4. boycott
   Social and commercial isolation of South Africa by individuals, organizations, and national governments protesting against South Africa's ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688
   
   
5. boycott
   the boycott is designed to prevent an employer from selling his products or services Category: Labour • a form of industrial action in which workers refuse to handle or buy the goods or services of an employer with whom they are in dsipute,and/or try to persuade others to do the same Category: Law
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
6. Boycott
   Boy'cott` transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Boycotted ; present participle & verbal noun Boycotting .] [ From Captain Boycott , a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/88
   
   
7. Boycott
   Boy'cott noun The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/88
   
   
8. boycott
   The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
   Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona
   
   
9. boycott
   noun a group`s refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
   Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
   
   
10. boycott
    verb refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
    
    
11. boycott
    refusing to do business with or trade with
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib
    
    
12. Boycott
    • (n.) The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion. • (v. t.) To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other pers...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
    
    
13. boycott
    collective and organized ostracism applied in labour, economic, political, or social relations to protest practices that are regarded as unfair. The ... [10 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/102
    
    
14. Boycott
    To protest by refusing to purchase from someone, or otherwise do business with them. In international trade, a boycott most often takes the form of refusal to import a country's goods.
    Found on http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/
    
    
15. Boycott
    Effort by a labor organization usually in collaboration with other organizations, to discourage the purchase, handling, or use of products of an employer with whom the labor organization is in dispute.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21021
    
    
16. boycott
    boycott, concerted economic or social ostracism of an individual, group, or nation to express disapproval or coerce change. The practice was named (1880) after Capt. Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland whose ruthlessness in evicting tenants led his employees to refuse all co...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/bus/A08086
    
    
17. Boycott
    (n) Boycott is the mode of protest against a policy, event, activity etc by abstaining from participation without causing direct damage. Eg. Boycotting a meeting which is intended to make a regulation which the boycotters wont agree. Boycott is generally resorted to catch public attention for the cause of their protest.
    Found on http://www.legal-explanations.com/defini
    
    
18. boycott
    (of South Africa) Social and commercial isolation of South Africa by individuals, organizations, and national governments protesting against South Africa's apartheid system. The sanctions and embargoes, imposed from the 1970s to 1994, applied to military supplies, economics, culture, and s...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency
    
    
19. Boycott
    A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons. It can be a form of consumer activism. ==Etymology== The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott