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A boycott is an act of nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organization, or country as an expression of protest.It is usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons. The purpose of a boycott is to inflict some economic loss on the target, or to indicate a moral outrage, usually to try to compel the target to alter an objectionable behavior.
boycott: [verb] to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (a person, a store, an organization, etc.) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions.
Boycott, collective and organized ostracism applied in labour, economic, political, or social relations to protest practices that are regarded as unfair. The boycott was popularized by Charles Stewart Parnell during the Irish land agitation of 1880 to protest high rents and land evictions. The term
BOYCOTT definition: 1. to refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong…. Learn more.
Aug 16, 2023 · Amazon.com boycott. Ethical Consumer has called for a boycott of Amazon since 2012 over its outrageous tax avoidance. In 2021, up to half a billion pounds (£500,000,000) may have been lost to the UK public purse from the corporation tax avoidance of Amazon alone. This amount could have paid for:
BOYCOTT meaning: 1. to refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong…. Learn more.
Jun 30, 2022 · Advertisement · Scroll to continue. In the most recent survey, of over 2,100 consumers in April, the segments of society most likely to be boycotting some product or company were six-figure ...
Britannica Dictionary definition of BOYCOTT. [+ object] : to refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting. plans to boycott American products. They boycotted the city's bus system. The country's leaders boycotted [=did not attend] the event in protest. : to stop using the goods or services of (a company, country, etc ...
Oct 28, 2023 · Protestors in Melbourne, Australia, hold a banner promoting the boycott of Israel at rally on October 10. The nearly 20-year-old movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel, called BDS ...
Feb 14, 2024 · What is the BDS movement? BDS is a Palestinian-led non-violent movement that began nearly two decades ago to call for a boycott of Israeli and international companies it believes are complicit in ...
