boycott
boycott Lexical Profile
boycott Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A punitive ban or organized refusal to buy from, deal with, or participate in a relationship with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest.
"Consumer advocacy groups organized a nationwide boycott of the company's products until working conditions were improved."
• verb
To withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) or refuse to buy or handle (goods) as a punishment or protest.
"Several opposition parties decided to boycott the parliamentary session in protest against the new legislation."
• Rhymes for boycott
Word Origin & Etymology
Eponymously named in 1880 after Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832–1897), an English land agent in County Mayo, Ireland, whom the Irish Land League socially and commercially ostracized after he refused to lower rents for tenant farmers.