Noun: boycott
| Singular | boycott |
| Plural | boycotts |
Sample Sentences
-
[W]hat has been the actual effects of the [UFW grape] boycott? As far as one can judge, it has cut down on the grape sales in a few big city outlets. But going into its second year, the boycott is losing steam. The middle class doesn't care. [1969 December 19, John Chamberlain, “The Boycott is a Boomerang”, in Meriden Journal:]
-
UFW and Chile solidarity boycotts of grapes had very little contact with one another, despite the extensive connections between California and Chilean fruit industries. [2013 December 23, Heidi Tinsman, Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 20:]
-
Labor movements are a primary arena in which the boycott has been used, most notably in the grape boycott from 1965 to 1978. The boycott has a long tradition in the United States that can be traced back to the Boston Tea Party, a boycott of English tea by settlers in the North American colonies. It is noteworthy that consumer boycotts can be used not only in the progressive spirit of social justice but also in the service of economic nationalism; for example, the various "Buy American" campaigns[.] [2018 January 31, Sunaina Maira, Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 36:]
Nouns inflected like boycott
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. For the surname see Boycott.
Verbs referencing "boycott"
Finnish Nouns
boikotti, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
boikott, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
boikott, German Nouns
Boykott, Czech Nouns
bojkot, Polish Nouns
bojkot, Russian Nouns
бойкот, Ukrainian Nouns
бойкот, Catalan Nouns
boicot, Danish Nouns
boykot, Portuguese Nouns
boicote, Hungarian Nouns
bojkott, Swedish Nouns
bojkott.