boycott

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: boy=cott

CIDE DICTIONARY

boycott, v. t. [From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880.].

 To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.  [1913 Webster]

boycott, n. 

 The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

boycott, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 combine in refusing social or commercial relations with (a person, group, country, etc.) usu. as punishment or coercion.
2 refuse to handle (goods) to this end.
--n. such a refusal.

Etymology

Capt. C. C. Boycott, Irish land-agent d. 1897, so treated from 1880

THESAURUS

boycott

avoid, ban, banish, banishment, bar, barring, beef, bitch, blackball, blacklist, blockade, boggle, boycottage, call in question, challenge, circumscription, complain, complaint, compunction, cry out against, debarment, debarring, demarcation, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur, demurrer, disfellowship, dispute, embargo, enter a protest, eschew, exception, exclusion, expostulate, expostulation, go on strike, go out, grievance, grievance committee, hold out, holler, howl, inadmissibility, indignation meeting, injunction, job action, kick, lock out, lockout, march, narrowing, nonadmission, nonviolent protest, object, objection, omission, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, outlaw, outlaw strike, pass by, pass over, picket, picketing, preclusion, press objections, prohibition, proscribe, proscription, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, qualm, raise a howl, rally, refuse, reject, rejection, relegation, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, repudiation, restriction, revolt, rulebook slowdown, scruple, shun, shut it down, sick-in, sit down, sit in, sit-down, sit-down strike, sit-in, slow down, slowdown, squawk, state a grievance, strike, sympathy strike, taboo, teach in, teach-in, tie-up, turnout, walk out, walkout, wildcat strike, work stoppage, yell bloody murder

ROGET THESAURUS

boycott

Ejection

VB give exit, give vent to, let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out, dispatch, despatch, exhale, excern, excrete, embogue, secrete, secern, extravasate, shed, void, evacuation, emit, open the sluices, open the floodgates, turn on the tap, extrude, detrude, effuse, spend, expend, pour forth, squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop, perspire, breathe, blow, tap, draw off, bale out, lade out, let blood, broach, eject, reject, expel, discard, cut, send to coventry, boycott, chasser, banish, bounce, fire, fire out, throw, throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside, push, throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside, shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away, brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away, discharge, send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift, turn out, bundle out, throw overboard, give the sack to, send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about, strike off the roll, turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop, pack off, send away with a flea in the ear, send to Jericho, bow out, show the door to, turn out of doors, turn out of house and home, evict, oust, unhouse, unkennel, dislodge, unpeople, dispeople, depopulate, relegate, deport, empty, drain to the dregs, sweep off, clear off, clear out, clear away, suck, draw off, clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge, embowel, disbowel, disembowel, eviscerate, gut, unearth, root out, root up, averuncate, weed out, get out, eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off, exenterate, vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf, belch out, cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god, disgorge, expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber, eructate, drool, unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload, break bulk, dump, be let out, spew forth, erupt, ooze.