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Boycott

noun

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

verb

(past & past part. boycotted; pres. part. boycotting)

Refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with. Antonyms: patronise, patronize.

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"Boycott" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Ferrier, "does not the question rather concern you in this neighborhood? I hear young Brenner has just come to live at West Hill. I don't now what sort of a youth he is, but if he's a decent fellow, I don't imagine anybody will boycott him on account ...

— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... almost unknown man has enriched the language with a new verb. A Captain Boycott of Lough Mask House, Co. Mayo, was a small Irish land-agent in 1880. The means that were adopted to try and drive him out of the country are well known. Since that time the expression to "boycott" a person, in the sense of combining with others ...

— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton

... was to announce a spiritual boycott from the pulpit on Zotique and his iniquitous hall; and with this he wrote to the Attorney-General on the scandal of the gross misuse of the Circuit Court and the bad ...

— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair

... support five times as many people as could live for the same length of time on the meat and milk that could be made by feeding the grain to domestic animals. It is because of this fact that the consumer may sometimes boycott meat or other animal products, while he never boycotts bread; but let us hope that permanent systems will become generally adopted in America, for the production of both grain and live stock, so that high standards of living ...

— The Farm That Won't Wear Out • Cyril G. Hopkins

... is given to understand in many subtile ways that as he will be damned in another world if he does not acquiesce in the fetich, so also will he be damned financially and socially here if he does not join the church. The intent in every Christian community is to boycott and make a social outcast of the independent thinker. The fetich furnishes excuse for the hypnotic processes. Without assuming a personal God who can be appeased, eternal damnation and the proposition that you can win eternal life by believing a myth, ...

— Love, Life & Work • Elbert Hubbard

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