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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
boycott/ˈbɔɪkɒt/

▶verb withdraw from commercial or social relations with (someone) as a punishment or protest.

■ refuse to buy or handle (goods) for this reason.

▶noun an act of boycotting.

– origin from the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott, an Irish land agent so treated in 1880 in an attempt to get rents reduced.

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