Boycotts can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| boycott - refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with | ||
Noun |
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| boycott - a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies |
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| 1. | noun | Boycotts change companies. | |
| 2. | noun | Boycotts can be very effective in changing a company's policy. | |
| 3. | noun | Do you think those boycotts will amount to anything? | |
| 4. | noun | Here we need financial starvation of the organizing elite, more power to women, more education, counter-propaganda, boycott whenever feasible and access to Western media, internet and the international scene. | |
| 5. | noun | He organized a boycott of the bus service. | |
| 6. | noun | They will boycott that product. | |
| 7. | noun | The boycott lasted a little more than a year. | |
| 8. | noun | She tried to persuade him to organize a boycott. | |
| 9. | noun | We will prepare for a boycott against Western Samoa. | |
| 10. | noun | My boycott of Italian television starts now. | |
| 11. | noun | The students chose to boycott their Political Science class for the rest of the semester in protest of their professor's suspension. | |
| 12. | noun | After years of trying to boycott products from unethical corporations responsible for human rights violations, environmental destruction, and animal abuse, many of us found that no matter what we bought we ended up supporting something deplorable. | |
| 13. | noun | Freeganism is a total boycott of an economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider. | |
| 14. | noun | This isn't a fair boycott. | |
| 15. | noun | We have to boycott them. |
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| noun | |
| Boycotts change companies. | |
| Boycotts can be very effective in changing a company's policy. | |
| Do you think those boycotts will amount to anything? | |
| Here we need financial starvation of the organizing elite, more power to women, more education, counter-propaganda, boycott whenever feasible and access to Western media, internet and the international scene. |
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| He organized a boycott of the bus service. | |
| They will boycott that product. | |
| The boycott lasted a little more than a year. | |
| She tried to persuade him to organize a boycott. | |
| We will prepare for a boycott against Western Samoa. | |
| My boycott of Italian television starts now. | |
| The students chose to boycott their Political Science class for the rest of the semester in protest of their professor's suspension. | |
| After years of trying to boycott products from unethical corporations responsible for human rights violations, environmental destruction, and animal abuse, many of us found that no matter what we bought we ended up supporting something deplorable. | |
| Freeganism is a total boycott of an economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider. | |
| This isn't a fair boycott. | |
| We have to boycott them. | |