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Definition

to refuse to buy things (from someone) or to refuse to participate in an activity (with someone) in order to express disapproval

Chavez led a nationwide boycott of table grapes.

boycott = refusal to buy

The party boycotted the election because their candidates were barred from running for office.

boycotted = refused to participate

Advertisers boycotted the show because of accusations that the script was racist.

boycotted = refused to buy advertising of

But even more important than all that, you're pointing a finger right at the Wallaces with this boycott business.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

boycott = refusing to buy things from someone in order to express disapproval

Sit-ins and boycotts of stores and public transportation applied economic pressure.
Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
He had taken part in them, and in the bus boycott.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
A few boycotts of white students soon led to a boycott of black students.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
In 1792, 300,000 people boycotted sugar from the West Indies—the greatest consumer boycott in history until that point.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
Gran ended up boycotting the ash scattering, and if she wasn't going, there was no reason for the rest of us to.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
Threatened boycotts of all Equinox products.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Two years later the U.S. boycotted the Olympic games in Moscow, so none of our athletes got to go.
Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
"As to the Government, they were absolutely terrified by this act of 'boycotting' (the slang word then current for such acts of abstention).
William Morris -- News from Nowhere
It has enemies who are organising an advertising boycott, trying to run it into the ground.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Vanderbilt worked on Riddle for a few days to get the owner to rescind his boycott of Pimlico and bring his colt back to meet Seabiscuit.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
She's calling for a school-wide boycott of Ho's Deli.
Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries
He had to do this because he lived on the pennies of the youngsters and he didn't want to be boycotted.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In 1980, when we were still in Kabul, the U.S. announced it would be boycotting the Olympic Games in Moscow.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
Joseph Kasavubu wavered between boycotting and trying to run the show.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Her plan now is to contact the producers of Cruise's new movie, War of the Worlds, and threaten to organize a boycott if there's not an apology.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
The Americans had already suspended most aid the year before when we conducted nuclear tests, but now almost everyone boycotted us.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

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