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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.

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"Boycott" Quotes from Famous Books

... those fellows howl and threaten us with the boycott because we won't advertise their lies and delusions. It's as ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... Teuton for the ownership of Constantinople and the dominion of the Near East, and that something must be done to retrieve the position in the Balkans which it was losing. After Baron Aehrenthal, in January 1909, had mollified the Young Turks by an indemnity, and thus put an end to the boycott, Russia in February of the same year liquidated the remains of the old Turkish war indemnity of 1878 still due to itself by skilfully arranging that Bulgaria should pay off its capitalized tribute, owed to its ex-suzerain the Sultan, ...

— The Balkans - A History Of Bulgaria--Serbia--Greece--Rumania--Turkey • Nevill Forbes, Arnold J. Toynbee, D. Mitrany, D.G. Hogarth

... of what will happen in the awakened darker world in the boycott of American goods by the Chinese, because of the rude treatment by American custom officials, of unoffending Chinese, a treatment born of the spirit ...

— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs

... represented as having done, is analogous to insisting that if non-unionists are employed, it shall be at the trade union rate, as every trade union very properly insists. To say, "You must buy only from us," the method of the boycott, as it is called, is analogous to the very common refusal to work with non-unionists at all. But in one important respect the tactical position of a trade union is weaker than that of an ordinary combination. ...

— Supply and Demand • Hubert D. Henderson

... nationality, and destined to play a very important part in the history of the world. Any sort of movement to have English or any other national language adopted officially as a universal auxiliary language would at once entail a boycott of the favoured language on the part of a ring of other powerful nations, who could not afford to give a rival the benefit of this augmented prestige. And it is precisely upon universality of adoption that the great use of an international ...

— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

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