boycott – English noun declension

English noun forms of boycott

Noun: boycott
Singularboycott
Pluralboycotts

Sample Sentences

  • [W]hat has been the actual effects of the [UFW grape] boycott? As far as one can judge, it has cut down on the grape sales in a few big city outlets. But going into its second year, the boycott is losing steam. The middle class doesn't care. [1969 December 19, John Chamberlain, “The Boycott is a Boomerang”, in Meriden Journal:]
  • UFW and Chile solidarity boycotts of grapes had very little contact with one another, despite the extensive connections between California and Chilean fruit industries. [2013 December 23, Heidi Tinsman, Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 20:]
  • Labor movements are a primary arena in which the boycott has been used, most notably in the grape boycott from 1965 to 1978. The boycott has a long tradition in the United States that can be traced back to the Boston Tea Party, a boycott of English tea by settlers in the North American colonies. It is noteworthy that consumer boycotts can be used not only in the progressive spirit of social justice but also in the service of economic nationalism; for example, the various "Buy American" campaigns[.] [2018 January 31, Sunaina Maira, Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 36:]

Etymology

From Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. For the surname see Boycott.

Verbs referencing "boycott"

Finnish Nouns boikotti, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns boikott, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns boikott, German Nouns Boykott, Czech Nouns bojkot, Polish Nouns bojkot, Russian Nouns бойкот, Ukrainian Nouns бойкот, Catalan Nouns boicot, Danish Nouns boykot, Portuguese Nouns boicote, Hungarian Nouns bojkott, Swedish Nouns bojkott.