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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



... labors to inspire Your pallid nostril with his breath of fire: The light of battle's faded from your face— You keep the peace, John Chinaman his place. O Ravlin, what cold water, thrown by whom Upon the kindling Boycott's ruddy bloom, Has slaked your parching blood-thirst and allayed The flash and shimmer of your lingual blade? Your salary—your ...
— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce

... name of the "Movement of May Fourth", because on May 4th, 1919, students of the National University in Peking demonstrated against the government and their pro-Japanese adherents. When the police attacked the students and jailed some, more demonstrations and student strikes and finally a general boycott of Japanese imports were the consequence. In these protest actions, professors such as Ts'ai Yuean-p'ei, later president of the Academia Sinica (died 1940), took an active part. The forces which had now been mobilized, rallied around the journal "New Youth" (Hsin Ch'ing-nien), created ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

... and clearly; and then the prompt and equally incisive reply, "Not out." Wonderful to say, the decisions of the umpires are accepted with tolerable readiness, except when they are flagrantly contrary to fact, as they sometimes are. A few of the politically disaffected students have tried to boycott the game as a foreign importation, but they have not met ...
— India and the Indians • Edward F. Elwin

... San Domingo, except the Dominicans, were glad to see the protector of the Indians. The new laws were regarded as the ruin of the colonies. Indignation meetings were held, and it was determined to boycott the monks. This was a very serious calamity to the Dominicans, for as they, like the Franciscans, belonged to what were known as the mendicant orders, and depended for their daily bread upon what they could beg, they were ...
— Las Casas - 'The Apostle of the Indies' • Alice J. Knight

... kind of boycott. The Conference might pass a rule reducing the commission of any agent who also represented non-Conference companies. You see, most agents represent several companies—a good, big agency may perhaps represent fifteen or twenty—and the Conference companies are in the majority in most of ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... under the name of the Stove Founders' National Defence Association. Later there was formed a number of other important associations, including the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Council for Industrial Defence, and the American Anti-Boycott Association. ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson



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



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