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What does boycott mean?
Definitions in simple English

boycott Verb

— If you boycott something, then you stop using a product or buying from a store on purpose. People mainly boycott as a form of protest. When the newspapers reported that a major clothing company had used child labor, many people boycotted the company.

boycott Noun

— A boycott is when people stop using a product or stop buying from a store on purpose. Boycotting is a form of protest to prove a point and avoid buying things from companies that have done wrong. The boycott against fruit grown in foreign countries lasted two months. Martin Luther King Jr. led a boycott against the Montgomery buses because the bus drivers gave priority seats to white people. So, instead of taking the bus, African Americans walked so bus company would sell fewer tickets and lose money.

boycott

— verb refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with — noun a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies

Synonyms boycott synonyms

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Topics boycott topics

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Protest

Conjugation boycott conjugation

How do you conjugate boycott?

boycott · verb

Examples boycott examples

How do I use boycott in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He organized a boycott of the bus service.
The boycott lasted a little more than a year.
Boycott Facebook.
We have to boycott them.
Let's boycott them.

Movie subtitles

A boycott?
I'll boycott you, that's what I'll do.
Kane is a scoundrel his paper should be closed, a committee formed to boycott him.
I believe it's a boycott.
The priest had thundered against its licentiousness and urged his flock to boycott it, but all in vain. it's got orgies, wife-swapping, strip-tease. let's go!
But some boys still boycott the barber shops.
BOYCOTT TRIPS TO SPAIN!
OF GEOFF BOYCOTT'S AVERAGE.
WHO IS GEOFF BOYCOTT?
If knew that, we can not burst in the boycott, I swear!
Boycott made a century.
Boycott.
Dr. Robert Boycott.
Almost certainly not Boycott says it's out of the question.
I'll picket your whole country. I'll boycott you, that's what I'll do.
We'll boycott your product!
The Depression, and then the trade boycott of Austria by Nazi Germany.
We should boycott women who don't cry.
Hold him. But some boys still boycott the barber shops.
There's lots of people making love But there's no mention Of geoff boycott's average.
Who is geoff boycott?
But from the beginning you have attempted to boycott this project.
I got your boycott swinging.
Hear me? What you ought to do is boycott that goddamn barber that fucked up your head.
The priest of San Filmino railed against it, warning his flock to boycott it, but to little effect.
Boycott?
What you ought to do is boycott that goddamn barber that fucked up your head.
Sal, we're going to boycott your fat pasta ass.
You're going to boycott me?
You haven't got the balls to boycott me.
He's going to boycott me.
Here's your boycott!
You're going to boycott.

News and current affairs

This is a hopeless strategy, because Hamas would boycott early elections, and even if their outcome would result in Hamas's exclusion from the government, no peace agreement would hold without Hamas support.
They will probably boycott the constitutional referendum and all subsequent elections, just as they have boycotted the previous elections.
On the other hand, the freely elected Palestinian leadership faces international boycott until it accepts a solution that the Netanyahu government rejects.
In 1951, Mussadegh nationalized Iran's oil industry, prompting a British boycott the next year and then US-backed intervention (which toppled and jailed the popular Prime Minister) in 1953.
Several prominent American politicians have voiced support for a boycott.
Rather than boycott Beijing, the world's leaders should embrace the Olympics and what they represent.
President Mahmoud Abbas's failure to convene the Palestinian Legislative Assembly, due to a Hamas boycott, may lead inexorably to the final breakdown of the political structures created under the Oslo Accords.
It would make no sense at all to boycott the Games.
For the political boycott implemented by the 14 against Austria undermines the Treaty on European Union, and raises serious doubts about the functioning of EU-institutions.
Hundreds of European scholars are circulating a petition calling for a boycott of Israeli institutions; other academics want the EU to deny grants to Israeli universities and scientific institutions.
Indeed, an Olympic boycott will become more likely if scenes of murdered or brutalized Buddhist monks are flashed around the world.
In any case, a US boycott of the forthcoming summit would be a Russian triumph, as it would throw the West into disarray.
The current flare-up is largely due to the fact that Fatah, encouraged by the international community's boycott of Hamas, never really accepted its electoral defeat and Hamas's right to govern.
Certainly, the boycott efforts ignored basic facts.
His opponents have responded by proclaiming their right to self-determination and threatening to boycott the referendum with which he hopes to legalize the reform.
That defiant cry from China's rulers to the threat of a boycott of this summer's Beijing Olympic Games does not stand the test of reality.
Other interesting developments on the eve of the election include a fierce public debate over whether to vote or to boycott the presidential race.
At that point, who would want to boycott a country whose technological prowess is needed all over the world?
The anger of northern Israel's Arab citizens at the killing of their brethren across the border led to a boycott that cost Peres the few thousand votes he needed to win.
Maybe Americans will rise up and threaten to boycott their cable and satellite providers unless we get our Al Jazeera - and other carriers of international news.
The Web site of its Ministry of Economy and Trade does not even mention such a plan (but does quote the Arab League's anti-Israel Central Boycott Office).
Indeed, the 2012 Summit of the Americas in Cartagena became an exercise in America-bashing, with countries threatening to boycott the 2015 summit if Cuba was not invited.
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan regularly boycott the CIS's meaningless annual summits.
A boycott would merely provoke nationalist hostility in China.

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