WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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boycott
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injunction
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blacklist
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collective bargaining
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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.
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: -noun [ C ] POLITICS. us. 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -brush aside/brush off. verbignore; refuse. boycott. cold-shoulder. contradict.