THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
BOSTON MASSACRE DECLARATORY TOWNSHEND ACTS
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Boycott
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Repeal
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Monopoly
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Bias
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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 refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval: People were urged to boycott the country’s products. The union called on its members to boycott the meeting.
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: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Meaning of consumer boycott in English 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.