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• boycott — boy·cott / bȯi ˌkät/ vt: to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a store, business, or organization) usu. to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions see also primary boycott, secondary boycott ◇ A… …   Law dictionary

• boycott — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ mass, total, worldwide ▪ academic, consumer, economic, trade ▪ a consumer boycott of GM foods …   Collocations dictionary

• boycott — /boykot/ Concerted refusal to do business with particular person or business in order to obtain concessions or to express displeasure with certain acts or practices of person or business. Barry v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 555 F.2d 3, 7. A …   Black's law dictionary

• boycott — /boykot/ Concerted refusal to do business with particular person or business in order to obtain concessions or to express displeasure with certain acts or practices of person or business. Barry v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 555 F.2d 3, 7. A …   Black's law dictionary

• consumer — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, great, heavy, large ▪ We are the biggest consumers of tropical hardwoods after Japan. ▪ average, ordinary ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Boycott — A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some other organization as an expression of protest.EtymologyThe word boycott entered the English language during… …   Wikipedia

• boycott — 01. Many people have decided to [boycott] that store because their clothes are made in factories where the workers are treated really badly. 02. The [boycott] was called to protest against the company s unfair labor policies. 03. The election was …   Grammatical examples in English

• Cottage cheese boycott — The Israeli Cottage cheese boycott or the Cottage cheese protest (Hebrew: מחאת הקוטג or חרם הקוטג ‎) is an Israeli consumer boycott which began in June 2011 as a protest group on Facebook, aimed at protesting against the continuing rise in food… …   Wikipedia

• Royal Bank of Scotland Group — Infobox Company company name = The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Public Limited Company company company type = Public (lse|RBS) foundation = 1727 location= Edinburgh, Scotland, UK key people = Sir Tom McKillop, Chairman Sir Fred A. Goodwin, CEO… …   Wikipedia

• Secondary boycott — A secondary boycott is an attempt by labor to convince others to stop doing business with a particular firm because that firm does business with another firm that is the subject of a strike and/or a primary boycott.BackgroundThis type of action… …   Wikipedia

• Nestlé boycott — The Nestlé boycott is a boycott launched on July 7, 1977, in the United States against the Swiss based Nestlé corporation. It spread quickly throughout the United States, and expanded into Europe in the early 1980s. In Canada, the controversy… …   Wikipedia