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Boycott

noun

A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies.

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"Boycott" Quotes from Famous Books

... of what will happen in the awakened darker world in the boycott of American goods by the Chinese, because of the rude treatment by American custom officials, of unoffending Chinese, a treatment born of the spirit ...

— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs

... represented as having done, is analogous to insisting that if non-unionists are employed, it shall be at the trade union rate, as every trade union very properly insists. To say, "You must buy only from us," the method of the boycott, as it is called, is analogous to the very common refusal to work with non-unionists at all. But in one important respect the tactical position of a trade union is weaker than that of an ordinary combination. ...

— Supply and Demand • Hubert D. Henderson

... nationality, and destined to play a very important part in the history of the world. Any sort of movement to have English or any other national language adopted officially as a universal auxiliary language would at once entail a boycott of the favoured language on the part of a ring of other powerful nations, who could not afford to give a rival the benefit of this augmented prestige. And it is precisely upon universality of adoption that the great use of an international ...

— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

... at every individual woman on earth! at this ridiculous feminine uprising, this suffragette revolution—at your National Female Federation Committee; the thousands of local unions; this strike of your entire sex; this general boycott of my sex! What has it accomplished?" He ...

— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers

... doors. He spends his spare moments in devising all kinds of petty annoyances, damp and dirty sheets, accidental damage to property, surreptitious draughts. And to vex one boy san is to antagonize the whole caste; it is a boycott. At last the tip is given. Sudden sunshine, obsequious manners, attention of all kinds—for ever dwindling periods, until at last the boy san attains his end, a fat retaining fee, extorted ...

— Kimono • John Paris

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