BOYCOTT
\bˈɔ͡ɪkɒt], \bˈɔɪkɒt], \b_ˈɔɪ_k_ɒ_t]\
Definitions of BOYCOTT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
By Princeton University
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a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.
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The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.
By Oddity Software
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To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.
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The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To combine in refusing to work to, to buy or sell with, or in general to give assistance to, or have dealings with, on account of difference of opinion or the like in social and political matters: a word introduced under the auspices of the Land League of Ireland in 1880.
By Daniel Lyons
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