boycott's Usage Examples:

For refusing to receive rents at figures fixed by the tenants, Captain Boycott (1832-1897), Lord Erne's agent in Mayo, was severely " boycotted," the name of the first victim being given to the new system.

If this is so, then how come several major parties and the majority of Sunnis in central Iraq boycotted the poll?gunmaned gunmen storm into homes, and the victims the majority of them Sunnis are never again seen alive.

This will certainly add fuel to the arguments for an academic boycott.

Their popularity wasn't hurt, and may well have been helped, when conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly organized a boycott of Reebok on the grounds that working with the rapper sent a negative message to impressionable children.

Last year ethnic minority officers rebelled against the Met, urging a boycott of recruitment campaigns.

Added to that, the club is still rocking under fan boycotts and general consternation over the proposed merger and name change to Rugby Town.

The voters decided to boycott the referendum, which needed a 50% turnout to be valid.

" Tenants," to quote the Cowper Commission again, " who have paid even the judicial rents have been summoned to appear before self-constituted tribunals, and if they failed to do so, or on appearing failed to satisfy those tribunals, have been fined or boycotted.

"" The people," says the report of the Cowper Commission, " are more afraid of boycotting, which depends for its success on the probability of outrage, than they are of the judgments of the courts of justice.

The actions today were part of a concerted campaign calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against apartheid Israel.

We will boycott the elections for the first presidential election.

Boycotting,however became ?'Men refused to attend their ministrations; in some cases they were subjected to what was afterwards called boycotting.

Men refused to attend their ministrations; in some cases they were subjected to what was afterwards called boycotting.

Synonyms:

ostracise, ostracize,

Antonyms:

confront, patronise, patronize,