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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
- Moe Steinman offered to help end the butchers' boycott and in return demanded a five-cent "commission" on every ten pounds of beef that IBP sold in New York.p. 155.1
- A good boycott, a refusal to buy, can speak much louder than words.p. 269.9
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