boycott
verb/ˈbɔɪkɒt/
/ˈbɔɪkɑːt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they boycott | /ˈbɔɪkɒt/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːt/ |
| he / she / it boycotts | /ˈbɔɪkɒts/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːts/ |
| past simple boycotted | /ˈbɔɪkɒtɪd/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːtɪd/ |
| past participle boycotted | /ˈbɔɪkɒtɪd/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːtɪd/ |
| -ing form boycotting | /ˈbɔɪkɒtɪŋ/ /ˈbɔɪkɑːtɪŋ/ |
- boycott something to refuse to buy, use or take part in something as a way of protesting
- We are asking people to boycott goods from companies that use child labour.
- They have urged people to boycott foreign products.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + boycott- threaten to
- call on somebody to
- urge somebody to
- …
Word Originfrom the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832–97), an Irish land agent treated in this way in 1880, in an attempt instigated by the Irish Land League to get rents reduced.Definitions on the go
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