boycott

See also: Boycott

English

Etymology

From Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɪkɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɪkɒt/

Verb

boycott (third-person singular simple present boycotts, present participle boycotting, simple past and past participle boycotted)

1. To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.

Synonyms

• blackball
• blacklist
• embargo
• withhold patronage

Related terms

• buycott

Translations

to abstain from dealing with a person or organisation as a protest

• Albanian: bojkotoj (sq)
• Armenian: բոյկոտ (hy) (boykot)
• Breton: boikotiñ (br)
• Catalan: boicotejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抵制 (zh) (dǐzhì), 杯葛 (zh) (bēigé) (loanword)

• Czech: bojkotovat
• Danish: boykotte
• Dutch: boycot (nl)
• Esperanto: bojkoti
• Finnish: boikotoida (fi)
• French: boycotter (fr)
• German: boykottieren (de)
• Hebrew: החרים‏‎ (hekhrím)

• Hungarian: bojkott (hu)
• Ido: boikotar (io)
• Irish: baghcatáil
• Italian: boicottare (it)
• Japanese: ボイコットする (boikotto suru)
• Korean: 보이콧하다 (ko) (boikothada)
• Malay: memboikot
• Norwegian: boikotte
• Polish: bojkotować (pl)
• Portuguese: boicotar (pt)
• Russian: бойкоти́ровать (ru) impf, pf (bojkotírovatʹ)
• Spanish: boicotear (es)
• Swedish: bojkotta (sv)
• Thai: คว่ำบาตร (th) (kwâm-bàat)

Noun

boycott (plural boycotts)

1. The act of boycotting.

Translations

the act of boycotting

• Albanian: bojkotim (sq)
• Arabic: مُقَاطَعَة‏‎ f (muqāṭaʿa)
• Azeri: boykot
• Catalan: boicot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抵制 (zh) (dǐzhì), 杯葛 (zh) (bēigé) (loanword)

• Czech: bojkot (cs) m
• Danish: boykot c
• Dutch: boycot (nl) m
• Finnish: boikotointi (fi)
• French: boycott (fr) m, boycottage (fr) m
• Georgian: ბოიკოტი (boiḳoṭi)
• German: Boykott (de) m
• Gujarati: બહિષ્કાર (bahiṣkār)
• Hebrew: חרם‏‎ (he) m (khérem)

• Ido: boikoto (io)
• Irish: baghcat m
• Italian: boicottaggio (it)
• Japanese: ボイコット (boikotto)
• Korean: 보이콧 (ko) (boikot)
• Malay: pemboikotan
• Persian: بایکوت‏‎ (fa) (bâykot)
• Polish: bojkot (pl)
• Portuguese: boicote (pt) m
• Russian: бойко́т (ru) m (bojkót)
• Serbo-Croatian: bojkot (sh) m, бојкот m
• Slovak: bojkot m
• Spanish: boicot (es) m, boicoteo (es) m
• Swedish: bojkott (sv) c
• Ukrainian: бойкот (uk) m (bojkót)

Further reading

• boycott on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English boycott.

Noun

boycott m (plural boycotts)

1. boycott

Related terms

• boycotter
• boycotteur

Further reading

• “boycott” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).