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noun
  1. The act of boycotting
Translations:
  • French: boycott(fr)m
  • German: Boykott(de)m
verb
  1. To abstain, either as an individual or group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organisation as an expression of protest.
Translations:
  • French: boycotter(fr)
  • German: boykottieren(de)
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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