Definitions | boycott |
| noun
- The act of boycotting
verb
- To abstain, either as an individual or group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organisation as an expression of protest.
Etymology: From Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880.
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