boycott

Examples

• All

• This boycott has gone on long enough.

  DeathBed (2002)

• What would turn into the bus boycott now?

• So much so that they called for a boycott like this one.

• "What do you think about the bus boycott in Mississippi?" she asked me.

  Fiction book (1993)

• What about the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

  Walkout (2006)

• 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?

  Action Point (2018)

• 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.

• During the summer, there was a widespread boycott of products made in the country with oppressive laws.

Synonyms

C

cancellation

vsboycott

• Slang

1 5.2

Publicly refusing to support someone because of something they did, often online

focuses on organized refusal to buy or participate rather than online shaming

N

nonimportation

vsboycott

1 9.0

Refusal to import goods from another country to protest its actions

applies broadly to refusing goods, use, or participation not only goods from other countries

N

nonconsumption

vsboycott

1 8.4

Refusing to buy or use certain goods to protest

organizes collective refusal rather than individual private choices

Antonyms

S

to support

∞ 1.0

Give help to a person or idea

How Rejecting

to ostracize

• US

29 7.7

boycott

89 4.3

to spurn

18 7.7

to shun

72 4.6

to ignore

∞ 1.0

to avoid

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology