Boycott

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion. See Synonyms at blackball.
  • n. The act or an instance of boycotting.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To abstain, either as an individual or group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.
  • n. The act of boycotting
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To combine in refusing to work for, buy from, sell to, give assistance to, or have any kind of dealings with, and
  • in preventing others from working for, buying from, selling to, assisting, or having any kind of dealings with (a person or company), on account of political or other differences, or of disagreements in business matters, as a means of inflicting punishment, or of coercing or intimidating.
  • n. An organized attempt to coerce a person or party into compliance with some demand, by combining to abstain, and compel others to abstain, from having any business or social relations with him or it; an organized persecution of a person or company, as a means of coercion or intimidation, or of retaliation for some act, or refusal to act in a particular way.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
  • v. refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with
    • Verb Form
    boycotted    boycotting    boycotts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    objection    protest    dissent    ostracize    ostracise   
    Form
    boycotted    boycotting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    avoid    conspiracy    blackball    blacklist    withhold patronage    embargo   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blockade    disunion    embargo    coercion    ostracism    autonomy   
     
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