1) Ban 2) Blacklist 3) Eschew 4) Protest
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1) Blackball 2) Certain protest 3) Collective punishment 4) Consumer action 5) Dissent 6) Economic protest 7) Embargo 8) Objection 9) Political protest of sorts 10) Product protest 11) Protest 12) Protest tactic 13) Refuse to buy 14) Refuse to buy from 15) Refuse to deal with 16) Refuse to do business with
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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 social or political reasons. Sometimes, it can be a form of consumer activism. ==Etymology== The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish `Land War` and is eponymously der.....
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• (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 person), to withhold social or business relations from...
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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.
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[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.
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collective and organized ostracism applied in labour, economic, political, or social relations to protest practices that are regarded as unfair. The ... [10 related articles]
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Social and commercial isolation of South Africa by individuals, organizations, and national governments protesting against South Africa's ...
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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.
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(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.
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refusing to do business with or trade with
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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.
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Boy'cott` transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Boycotted ;
present participle & verbal noun Boycotting .] [ From Captain
Boycott , a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880.] To combine against (a landlord, tradesma...
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[
n] - a group`s refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies 2. [v] - refuse to sponsor
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Non-Jewish citizens were forbidden to buy from the Jews as a means of protest by the Nazis.
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noun a group`s refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
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(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...
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to combine in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as a means of intimidation or coercion: to boycott a store. · to abstain from buying or using: to boycott foreign products.
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From Capt Charles Boycott, agent for the absentee Mayo landlord Lord Erne during the Land War (1878-1909). Charles Stewart Parnell, as president of the Irish National Land League, kicked it off by urging people to ostracise anyone who attempted to take the farms of evicted tenants. Boycott became one of the first victims when he tried to evict tena...
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[SAT terms] refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with
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