An example of a boycott is one of the famous ones, the Montgomery Bus Boycott when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus. Another example is the International Buy Nothing Day to try to stop the over-consumption of purchasing things.
It means to stop using the services or buying the goods of a company, country or other entity. Usually done by a large group of people all at once in order to compel the company to change some policy that is perceived as wrong.
A good example is when people stopped buying shoes from some companies because they were getting their substandard shoes made by little children in some Mickey Mouse country in some depressed country somewhere. (I think the boycott was aimed at the use of child slaves, not the quality of the shoes.)
Civil rights leaders boycotted many businesses during the Civil Rights Movement. Boycott means to protest in a civil way. Leaders in the Movement boycotted using sit-ins in North Carolina.
The environmentalists proposed a boycott of all non-environmentally friendly products.
We will boycott the products.
The people of the UK should boycott Starbucks until they pay their taxes.
The boycott nearly made the business bankrupt.
We should start a bus Boycott.
Martain Luther king Jr formed a 'Boycott' to fight for black civil rights, fight for justice, for their right to sit where ever they wished to on a bus. They succeded.
Refusion to buy Not buying Saying no to a person who is selling something
the word rag in a sentence
A sentence with the word 'porcupine' in it is no different from any other sentence, it is just a sentence referring to a porcupine.
You need a sentence with the word towards.
We will go boycott that bus company tomorrow at 10a.m.
There are many types of sentences you could write using the word boycott. One such sentence could be, "Did you participate in the recent grocery store boycott?"
In an effort to silence the voices of those they disagreed with, the left wing group MoveOn.org arranged for a boycott of Target.
As a verb: We could boycott that movie but I believe that what we find objectionable will make it very popular. As a noun: The union is hoping their boycott will change management's policy.
Barbara decided to boycott the company because it tests its products on animals. Some other words for boycott are shut out, blacklist, spurn, reject, and cut off.
The group encouraged their members to boycott certain foods. The movie boycott was successful. A boycott may or may not have the desired results. If enough people boycott the company, it will change it's ways. The boycott will take place until they get the results they want.
The people put a boycott on tea. boycott - a refusal in buying goods from someone
The colony has decided to boycott tea!
Many colonists began a boycott of British goods.
Margaret did not like what she read in the newspapers about the actor's off-screen behaviour, so she made it a rule to boycott his movies, which she never saw.
The boycott is an effective way for disgruntled customers to be heard, because no business can survive when people refuse to support them.The judge informed the district attorney that There will be no sentence for the defendant's boycott.Animal activists are quite vociferous in their exhortations to boycott the fur trade.
to decline it