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A boycott is a refusal to buy goods as a punishment or protest. The word comes from Captain Charles Boycott, a land agent in Ireland who was subject to social ostracism organized by the irish Land League in 1880. He tried to evict several tenants, and in turn they and others in the town began shunning Boycott. His workers stopped working for him, local businessmen stopped trading with him and even the postman refused to deliver his mail.

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