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. For the surname see Boycott.

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.
   • 2019 September 10, Jonathan Guyer, The American Prospect‎^[1], number Fall 2019:

     Omar has challenged Elliott Abrams’s record in Latin America, taken a firm line against Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, and advocated for—wait for it—the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine (even though the headlines have focused on her expressing support for the right to boycott as a tactic).

Synonyms

• blackball, blacklist, embargo, withhold patronage; see also Thesaurus:boycott

Derived terms

• boycotter
• boycottee
• secondary boycott

Related terms

• buycott

Descendants

• → French: boycott
• → Portuguese: boicote

Translations

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

• Albanian: bojkotoj (sq)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: բոյկոտ (hy) (boykot)
• Breton: boikotiñ (br)
• Bulgarian: бойкотирам (bg) (bojkotiram)
• Catalan: boicotejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 杯葛 (yue)

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

• Czech: bojkotovat
• Danish: boykotte
• Dutch: boycotten (nl)
• Esperanto: bojkoti
• Finnish: boikotoida (fi)
• French: boycotter (fr)
• Galician: boicotear (gl)
• German: boykottieren (de)
• Hebrew: החרים‎ (hekhrím)
• Hindi: बहिष्कार (hi) m (bahiṣkār)

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

Noun

boycott (plural boycotts)

1. The act of boycotting.
   • 2019 April 28, Hagai El-Ad, “What kind of democracy deports human rights workers?”, in Yoni Molad, transl., +972 Magazine‎^[2]:

     So, memorize this from now on: Israel is a democracy. A defensive one. We are the victims. The boycott seeks to destroy us. The Europeans are anti-Semites. The Palestinians are terrorists. Leftists are traitors. There is no occupation. The decision of the interior minister to deport Shakir is reasonable under the circumstances. The petitioner must leave Israel. Who’s next?

Synonyms

• embargo, taboo; see also Thesaurus:sanction

Translations

the act of boycotting

• Albanian: bojkotim (sq)
• Arabic: مُقَاطَعَة‎ f (muqāṭaʿa)
• Azerbaijani: boykot
• Bulgarian: бойкот (bg) m (bojkot)
• Catalan: boicot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 杯葛 (yue)

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

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

• 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: бойко́т (uk) m (bojkót)

Further reading

• boycott on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English boycott.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔj.kɔt/

Noun

boycott m (plural boycotts)

1. boycott

Related terms

• boycotter
• boycotteur

Further reading

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