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Boycott   /bˈɔɪkˌɑt/   Listen
Boycott

verb
(past & past part. boycotted; pres. part. boycotting)
1.
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



Words linked to "Boycott" :   protest, ostracize, dissent, patronise, objection, patronize, ostracise



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