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- Dictionaryboy·cott/ˈboiˌkät/
verb
- 1. withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest: "we will boycott all banks which take part in the loans scheme"
noun
- 1. a punitive ban that forbids relations with certain groups, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods: "a boycott of the negotiations"
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The meaning of BOYCOTT is to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (a person, a store, an organization, etc.) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions.
to refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval: People were urged to boycott the country's products. The union called on its members to boycott the meeting. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Opposing & against. active resistance. ad hominem. against someone's beliefs. alienated. converse.
To boycott means to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest; the noun boycott is the protest itself.
Boycott definition: to combine in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as a means of intimidation or coercion. See examples of BOYCOTT used in a sentence.
If you boycott a country, a organization, or an activity, you refuse to be involved with it, because you disapprove of it. The main opposition parties are boycotting the elections. American English : boycott / ˈbɔɪkɒt /
to refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval: People were urged to boycott the country's products. The union called on its members to boycott the meeting. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Opposing & against. active resistance. ad hominem. adversarial. against someone's beliefs.
1. to join together in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as a means of protest or coercion: to boycott a store. 2. to abstain from buying or using: to boycott imported goods. n. 3. the practice of boycotting.
boycott something to refuse to buy, use or take part in something as a way of protesting. We are asking people to boycott goods from companies that use child labour. They have urged people to boycott foreign products.
a situation in which people refuse to buy, use, or do something because they do not approve of it: Environmental groups have called for a boycott of the company's products. boycott. verb [ T ] Several countries boycotted the international peace talks. (Definition of boycott from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
boycott meaning, definition, what is boycott: to refuse to buy something, use somethin...: Learn more.
