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boycott
/ˈbɔɪkɑt/
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What does boycott mean?
verb
- To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.
noun
- The act of boycotting.
proper noun
- A hamlet in Stowe parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP6636).
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proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɔɪkɑt/
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Major Sleeman reveals the fact that the trade union and the boycott are antiquities in India.
The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.
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The boycott, in various forms, and the label, showing that the work has been done under trade- union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles.
There are people who seem to cheat with a private self-approval, who are ever ready to do harsh and cruel things, whose use for social feeling is the malignant boycott, and for prosperity, monopolisation and humiliating display; who seize upon religion and turn it into persecution, and upon beauty to torment it on the altars of some joyless vice.
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 may be maintained for all classes of people in this country.