boy´cot|ter

boy´cot|ter
boy|cott «BOY kot», verb, noun.
–v.t.
1. to join together against and have nothing to do with (a person, business, nation, employer, or any other person or thing) in order to coerce or punish. If people are boycotting someone, they do not associate with him, or buy from or sell to him, and they try to keep others from doing so.
2. to refuse to buy or use (a product or service).
–n.
an act of boycotting: »

The Amalgamated Clothing Workers…were ready to press a boycott on Japanese textile goods (New Yorker).

╂[< Captain Charles Boycott, 1832-1897, an English land agent over Irish tenants, and victim of a famous instance of it when he refused to lower rents in hard times]
–boy´cot|ter, noun.

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