boycott

See also: Boycott

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Captain Charles Cunningham 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 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
• Portuguese: boicotar (pt)
• Russian: бойкоти́ровать (ru) impf, pf ‎(bojkotírovatʹ)
• Spanish: boicotear (es)
• Swedish: bojkotta (sv)
• Thai: คว่ำบาตร (th) ‎(khwam bat)

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 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
• 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)

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French

Etymology

From English

Noun

boycott m ‎(plural boycotts)

1. boycott

Related terms

• boycotter
• boycotteur

External links

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