USA HISTORY

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: -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-3: -boycott -kaht verb. : to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (a person, a store, an organization, etc.)

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -the Iranian Tobacco Boycott in 1891. Civil rights movement boycotts to protest segregation (e.g., Montgomery & Tallahassee Bus Boycotts) the United Farm Workers union grape and lettuce boycotts. the American boycott of British goods during the American Revolution, such as the Boston Tea Party.