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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
boycott
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
boycott an election (=refuse to take part in an election as a protest)
▪ Opposition parties have threatened to boycott the elections.
boycott an event (=refuse to go to an event as a protest)
▪ The games went ahead despite threats to boycott the event.
call for a boycott
▪ In 1980 he called for a boycott of the Olympic Games.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
election
▪ This represented a significant concession to the opposition, which had otherwise threatened to boycott the election.
▪ The Communists tried to boycott the election in the South, too, but the effort failed.
▪ The four major opposition parties reportedly decided to boycott the Nov. 29 elections in protest at alleged unfair election conditions.
▪ The main opposition parties had boycotted the elections.
▪ Only hours before polls closed late yesterday afternoon, Mr Rafsanjani urged voters not to boycott the election.
▪ According to the report the majority of parties had indicated that they would boycott the election.
▪ All major opposition parties boycotted local elections in November 1990 because they believed that the results would be rigged.
meeting
▪ Both had immediately boycotted Cabinet meetings.
opposition
▪ The main opposition parties had boycotted the elections.
▪ A further round of voting was then ordered, and the opposition boycotted it.
▪ All major opposition parties boycotted local elections in November 1990 because they believed that the results would be rigged.
▪ The birth takes place under threatening skies. Opposition parties are boycotting the vote.
party
▪ The four major opposition parties reportedly decided to boycott the Nov. 29 elections in protest at alleged unfair election conditions.
▪ The main opposition parties had boycotted the elections.
▪ All major opposition parties boycotted local elections in November 1990 because they believed that the results would be rigged.
▪ Opposition parties are boycotting the vote.
▪ The Bûcherons candidate stood in defiance of an instruction by the party leader to boycott the elections.
▪ With opposition groups still voicing concerns about the March poll date, 16 of the 48 registered political parties boycotted the election.
test
▪ The Patten plan, detailed in a Government draft circular, risks further heightening confrontation with teachers already boycotting national curriculum tests.
vote
▪ Opposition parties are boycotting the vote.
■ VERB
call
▪ He is calling for shoppers to boycott Star Discount and wants the council to take legal action against the company.
▪ He has called for advertisers to boycott these shows and for stations to stop airing them.
threaten
▪ This represented a significant concession to the opposition, which had otherwise threatened to boycott the election.
▪ Voucher trouble Shopworkers' union Usdaw has threatened to boycott the government's voucher system for asylum seekers as protests gather momentum.
▪ Four years ago seven leading men threatened to boycott the event because they considered the prize money too low.
▪ Indigenous organizations had threatened to boycott the presidential and congressional elections unless their demands were met.
urge
▪ Now Jim Wade, who is one of Eurotunnel's founding shareholders, is urging bikers to boycott the service.
▪ Only hours before polls closed late yesterday afternoon, Mr Rafsanjani urged voters not to boycott the election.
▪ Residents are being urged to boycott the supermarket blamed for most of the problems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Several countries have said they may boycott next year's Olympic Games.
▪ Six countries have threatened to boycott the Olympics.
▪ Students have threatened to boycott certain banks as a protest at their investment policies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Angry taxi drivers responded by boycotting a planned workshop on treating customers courteously.
▪ Four years ago seven leading men threatened to boycott the event because they considered the prize money too low.
▪ Fretilín announced that it would boycott the investigation, dismissing military guarantees of safety for those giving evidence to the commission.
▪ It involved a group of white-owned businesses in Mississippi being boycotted by civil rights groups accusing them of racist practices.
▪ Opposition parties are boycotting the vote.
▪ Some Ulster Unionists have already declared they would boycott him if he were chosen.
▪ The former Soviet-bloc countries boycotted the 1984 Olympics in response to the boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
consumer
▪ However, consumer boycotts can often do more harm than good.
■ VERB
call
▪ Animal rights groups have called for a tourism boycott in protest against the plan.
▪ Although some black groups called for a boycott of the curfew, it had the effect of restoring an uneasy calm.
▪ Opposition groups in exile had rejected the terms of the Constitution and called for a boycott.
▪ Groups demanding an autonomous Sikh state have already called for a boycott of the elections.
▪ Rebel supporters from the Barnet Supporters' Association called for a boycott of all matches.
end
▪ It was reported on Aug. 30 that the Sacred Union had decided to end its boycott.
▪ Students had defied an earlier instruction from the King to end the boycott, the second in six months.
join
▪ There have even been attempts to pressurise Desmond Haynes, the island's sole representative, into joining the boycott.
▪ The percentage of respondents declaring that they had considered or had actually joined a boycott rose in fifteen of the twenty-one countries.
▪ Fuss Mr Wilmot's six assistant chief constables are likely to join the boycott in November.
lead
▪ S.-#led boycott of the Moscow Games.
▪ The ruling, primarily intended as a safety measure, could lead to a widespread boycott by disabled entrants.
organize
▪ In mid-May blacks in the neighbouring township of Thabong organized a boycott of white-owned shops in Welkom.
▪ Attempts to organize boycotts of contributions by employers of servants were apparently unsuccessful.
threaten
▪ They have threatened strikes, boycotts and demonstrations if the sale and break-up go ahead.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a boycott of the peace talks
▪ Farmers are calling for a boycott of all imported meat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A boycott of classes also began in support of the hunger strikers.
▪ No strike deadline has been set, nor has a full-fledged boycott been called.
▪ Rebel supporters from the Barnet Supporters' Association called for a boycott of all matches.
▪ School boycotts were organized, and tens of thousands of black kids were kept home.
▪ Should all this be conveniently forgotten now that the boycott is about to be lifted?
▪ The final version merely required firms to report to the Commerce Department whenever they complied with the boycott.
▪ The firm staged the one-day boycott yesterday to put pressure on Liverpool City Council to pay up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boycott

Boycott \Boy"cott`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boycotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boycotting.] [From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880.] 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.

Boycott

Boycott \Boy"cott\, 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
boycott

1880, noun and verb, from Irish Land League ostracism of Capt. Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), land agent of Lough-Mask in County Mayo, who refused to lower rents for his tenant farmers. Quickly adopted by newspapers in languages as far afield as Japanese (boikotto). The family name is from a place in England.

Wiktionary
boycott

n. The act of boycotting vb. To abstain, either as an individual or group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.

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WordNet
boycott

  1. n. a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies

  2. v. refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with [ant: patronize, patronize]

Wikipedia
Boycott (disambiguation)

Boycott may refer to:

  • A boycott, an organized ostracism as a means of protest
People:
  • Arthur Boycott (1877-1938), British pathologist and naturalist
  • Charles Boycott (1832–1897), a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave rise to the word boycott
  • Geoffrey Boycott (born 1940), English cricketer
  • Rosie Boycott (born 1951), British journalist
Other
  • Boycott, Buckinghamshire, a village in the United Kingdom
  • Boycott (1985 film), a 1985 film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Boycott (2001 film), a 2001 film directed by Clark Johnson
  • Boycott (novel), a 2012 novel by Colin C. Murphy
Boycott (1985 film)

Boycott is a 1985 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, set in pre-revolutionary Iran. The film tells the story of a young man named Valeh ( Majid Majidi) who is sentenced to death for his communist tendencies. It is widely believed that the film is based on Makhmalbaf's own experiences. Ardalan Shoja Kaveh starred in the film.

Boycott

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. The purpose of a boycott is to inflict some economic loss on the target, or to indicate a moral outrage, to try to compel the target to alter an objectionable behavior.

Sometimes, a boycott can be a form of consumer activism, sometimes called moral purchasing. When a similar practice is legislated by a national government, it is known as a sanction.

Boycott (novel)

Boycott is a novel by Irish author Colin C. Murphy, published in 2012. The story is based on the real-life events in Ireland surrounding Captain Charles Boycott, which led to the word ' boycott' entering the English language.

Boycott (2001 film)

Boycott is a 2001 American television film directed by Clark Johnson, and starring Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King Jr. The film, based on the book Daybreak of Freedom by Stewart Burns, tells the story of the 1955-1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott. It won a Peabody Award in 2001 "for refusing to allow history to slip into 'the past.'"

Usage examples of "boycott".

But in vain we scraped together every penny we could get, For they fixed us with their boycott, and the plant was seized for debt.

Gulam Nohiuddin has resigned his Honorary Magistrateship, I hope that both these patriots will not consider that they have done their last duty by their acts of renunciation, but I hope they will regard their acts as a prelude to acts of greater purpose and greater energy and I hope they will take in hand the work of educating the electorate in their districts regarding boycott of councils.

Overt Birth Control knowledge had been successfully banned, though this produced no effect in the decline in population, and the Modern State nuclei had been boycotted more effectually there than in any other part of the world.

We have a notable example of this in the boycott which the Typographical Society has proclaimed against The Dawn.

The Dawn office gives whole or partial employment to about ten women, working either on this journal or in the printing business, and the fact that women are earning an honest living in a business hitherto monopolised by men, is the reason why the Typographical Association, and all the affiliated societies it can influence, have resolved to boycott The Dawn.

Without unity with the assimilationist Jews, including the Communists, as well as Gentile anti-Nazis, they could never begin to harm the Nazis either through the boycott or any other way.

Many particular contracts had Hortator mandates written into the fine print, including clauses requiring the users to cooperate with embargoes and boycotts.

At the start of our war and subsequent boycott against Iraq, a few hundred children younger than five were killed each month by respiratory infections, malnutrition, and diarrheal illnesses.

The protest spread overnight to Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow and Canton, with shops closing everywhere as students swept through the streets calling for the boycott.

Shortly after surrender, students at a high school in Mito city at-tracted nationwide attention by boycotting classes and forcing their militaristic principal to resign.

His processing plant in Virginia was nonunion, and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union began an all-out boycott campaign against his chickens.

The members appointed to the NLRB were less sympathetic to labor, the Supreme Court declared sit-downs to be illegal, and state governments were passing laws to hamper strikes, picketing, boycotts.

To my further surprise, his cadres had shown themselves to be remarkably effective, winning a range of battles, either through the courts or through boycotts, organized letter writing, depossession enactments and other direct actions.

Isolated anti-human pogroms had turned into widescale wars of extermination, economic sanctions had turned into galaxywide boycotts, and treaties were signed and broken by alien races with the regularity that had once characterized the race of Man.

In 1990 workers who had been laid off from the Levi Strauss company in San Antonio because the company was moving to Costa Rica called a boycott, organized a hunger strike, and won concessions.