boycott
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4.3
- noun
- /ˈbɔɪkɒt/
:
boicot
- Many students participated in the boycott to protest against high tuition fees.
- call for a boycott
- consumer boycott
- advocate a boycott
But But Stop Funding Hate launched an advertising boycott before GB News was even.
- But But Stop Funding Hate launched an advertising boycott before GB News was even.
- This is a drastic issue and the boycotts are now spreading.
- BDS means boycott, divestment and sanctions.
- And he joined Martin Luther King shortly after the bus boycott began.
- Now, boycotts, public pressure, all those things have a place.
- And then that started the Montgomery, AL bus boycott, which essentially kicked off the modern day civil rights movement.
- My own father participated in that silent boycott, and then later he would buy only US made cars for patriotic reasons.
- And then to get to your question, even as the boycott began, there were companies that broke from industry and introduced the alternatives.
Examples
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This boycott has gone on long enough.
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What would turn into the bus boycott now?
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So much so that they called for a boycott like this one.
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"What do you think about the bus boycott in Mississippi?" she asked me.
Fiction book (1993) -
What about the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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But the city appeals the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the boycott continues.
Fiction book (2001) -
Remember the big grape boycott that helped the farm workers?
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott showed that nonviolent protest could help bring an end to segregation.
Fiction book (2001) -
The activists organized a boycott against the company's unfair labor practices.
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During the summer, there was a widespread boycott of products made in the country with oppressive laws.
Synonyms
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5.2
Publicly refusing to support someone because of something they did, often online
Refusing to buy or use certain goods to protest
Refusal to import goods from another country to protest its actions
Antonyms
How Rejecting
Surface Forms
Etymology
Boycott comes from the name of a man, Captain Boycott, in Ireland whose neighbours in the 1880s refused to work for him or trade with him as a way to protest. So a boycott is an organized refusal to buy, use, or take part in something to show protest.