boycotts
Meaning of boycotts
verb, 3rd person present
- withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
we will boycott all banks which take part in the loans scheme
- a punitive ban on relations with other bodies, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods.
a boycott of the negotiations
from the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832–97), an Irish land agent so treated in 1880, in an attempt instigated by the Irish Land League to get rents reduced.
Information about boycotts
- The singular form of boycotts is: boycott.
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Hyphenation of boycotts
boy-cotts
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- boycotts is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
boycotts synonyms
Meaning reject with disdain or contempt:
Meaning rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully:
Meaning persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution:
Meaning keep away from or stop oneself from doing (something):
Meaning officially or legally prohibit (something):
Meaning fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars:
Meaning dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty:
Meaning exercise a veto against (a decision or proposal):
Meaning officially ban the publication of:
Meaning formally forbid (something) by law, rule, or other authority:
Meaning exclude or prohibit (someone) officially from doing something:
Meaning ban or make illegal:
Meaning outlaw (someone):
Meaning prohibit or forbid (something):
Meaning reject (a candidate applying to become a member of a private club), typically by means of a secret ballot:
Meaning put on a blacklist:
Meaning refuse to handle (goods), undertake (work), or have dealings with (a person or business) as a way of taking industrial action:
Meaning a temporary prohibition of an activity:
Meaning the action of forbidding something, especially by law:
Meaning the action of forbidding something; banning:
Meaning an authoritative warning or order:
Meaning a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule:
Meaning a limiting condition or measure, especially a legal one:
Meaning a fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access:
Meaning the action of keeping away from or not doing something:
Meaning the dismissing or refusing of a proposal, idea, etc:
Meaning an act of refusing to do something:
boycotts antonyms
Meaning bear all or part of the weight of; hold up:
Meaning the action of approving something:
Words that rhyme with boycotts
botts, Murcotts, Scotts, antiboycotts, cotts, chotts, shotts, Elliotts, polyglotts, motts, Notts, Potts, potts
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