USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -the action of refusing to buy a product, do business with a company, or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval: a boycott of sth Pressure groups urged a consumer boycott of clothing brands made using child labour.

Detailed explanation-2: -To boycott means to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest; the noun boycott is the protest itself. This noun comes from the name of Charles C. Boycott, an English land agent in 19th-century Ireland who refused to reduce rents for his tenant farmers.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is a boycott? A boycott is a 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -boycott -kaht 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.

Detailed explanation-5: -an occasion when customers stop buying a particular product or stop buying from a particular company as a way of expressing strong disapproval: The threat of a possible consumer boycott of diamonds has persuaded the industry that it has to tackle the problem of human rights abuse.