USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
to refuse to buy certain goods of services
A
Militia
B
boycott
C
repeal
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -: 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. boycotting American products.

Detailed explanation-3: -verb. 1. ( transitive) to refuse to have dealings with (a person, organization, etc) or refuse to buy (a product) as a protest or means of coercion. to boycott foreign produce.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The word is named after Captain Charles Boycott, agent of an absentee landlord in Ireland, against whom the tactic was successfully employed after a suggestion by Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell and his Irish Land League in 1880.

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