boycott

From Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. For the surname see Boycott.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɪkɒt/

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boycott (third-person singular simple present boycotts, present participle boycotting, simple past and past participle boycotted)

1. (transitive) To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.
   • 1998 July 3, James Brooke, “Anti-Government Freemen Are Found Guilty of Fraud”, in New York Times, retrieved 8 August 2012:

     Unbowed after two years in jail, nine of the defendants boycotted the trial, refusing even to talk to their lawyers.

   • 2012, Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate:

     But even if you weren't boycotting the film on the basis of its disgraceful necrobestiality theme, boycotting it on the basis of its vampires is reason enough.

   • 2019 September 10, Jonathan Guyer, The American Prospect‎^[1], number Fall 2019:

     Omar has challenged Elliott Abrams’s record in Latin America, taken a firm line against Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, and advocated for—wait for it—the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine (even though the headlines have focused on her expressing support for the right to boycott as a tactic).

   • 2023 December 14, Al Jazeera, Are the boycotts against Israel making an impact?‎^[2], number Israel-Gaza war aftermath:

     Consumers are using boycotts as a tool to call corporations out for their support of Israel’s war on Gaza. Some companies have seen their sales decline as consumers continue to boycott them for their association with Israel.

• blackball, blacklist, embargo; see also Thesaurus:boycott

• buycott

boycott (plural boycotts)

1. The act of boycotting.
   • 1969 December 19, John Chamberlain, “The Boycott is a Boomerang”, in Meriden Journal:

     [W]hat has been the actual effects of the [UFW grape] boycott? As far as one can judge, it has cut down on the grape sales in a few big city outlets. But going into its second year, the boycott is losing steam. The middle class doesn't care.

   • 2013 December 23, Heidi Tinsman, Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 20:

     UFW and Chile solidarity boycotts of grapes had very little contact with one another, despite the extensive connections between California and Chilean fruit industries.

   • 2018 January 31, Sunaina Maira, Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 36:

     Labor movements are a primary arena in which the boycott has been used, most notably in the grape boycott from 1965 to 1978. The boycott has a long tradition in the United States that can be traced back to the Boston Tea Party, a boycott of English tea by settlers in the North American colonies. It is noteworthy that consumer boycotts can be used not only in the progressive spirit of social justice but also in the service of economic nationalism; for example, the various "Buy American" campaigns[.]

• embargo, taboo; see also Thesaurus:sanction

• boycott on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English boycott, from Charles Boycott.

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• IPA^(key): /bɔj.kɔt/

boycott m (plural boycotts)

1. boycott

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• boycotter
• boycotteur m

• “boycott”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.