'Boycott' definitions:
Definition of 'boycott'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Boycott'
From: GCIDE
- Boycott \Boy"cott`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boycotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boycotting.] [From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880.] To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Boycott'
From: GCIDE
- Boycott \Boy"cott\, n. The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'boycott'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- avoid,
- ban,
- banish,
- banishment,
- bar,
- barring,
- beef,
- bitch,
- blackball,
- blacklist,
- blockade,
- boggle,
- boycottage,
- call in question,
- challenge,
- circumscription,
- complain,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- cry out against,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- demarcation,
- demonstrate,
- demonstrate against,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- disfellowship,
- dispute,
- embargo,
- enter a protest,
- eschew,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- expostulate,
- expostulation,
- go on strike,
- go out,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- hold out,
- holler,
- howl,
- inadmissibility,
- indignation meeting,
- injunction,
- job action,
- kick,
- lock out,
- lockout,
- march,
- narrowing,
- nonadmission,
- nonviolent protest,
- object,
- objection,
- omission,
- ostracism,
- ostracization,
- ostracize,
- outlaw,
- outlaw strike,
- pass by,
- pass over,
- picket,
- picketing,
- preclusion,
- press objections,
- prohibition,
- proscribe,
- proscription,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- qualm,
- raise a howl,
- rally,
- refuse,
- reject,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- remonstrance,
- remonstrate,
- remonstration,
- repudiation,
- restriction,
- revolt,
- rulebook slowdown,
- scruple,
- shun,
- shut it down,
- sick-in,
- sit down,
- sit in,
- sit-down,
- sit-down strike,
- sit-in,
- slow down,
- slowdown,
- squawk,
- state a grievance,
- strike,
- sympathy strike,
- taboo,
- teach in,
- teach-in,
- tie-up,
- turnout,
- walk out,
- walkout,
- wildcat strike,
- work stoppage,
- yell bloody murder