boycott
Consumer protest tactic
Boycott is a refusal to buy, use, or participate in something as a form of protest or pressure.
Consumers boycott companies over labor practices; nations boycott another country's exports.
The word comes from Charles Boycott, an Irish land agent so shunned by tenants in 1880 that his name became the act itself.
They called for a boycott of the Olympics.
Public expression of disapproval
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- movementChange in position
- rallyGathering for a cause
march · strike · picket · sit-in · civil disobedience · grassroots · petition · advocacy
Official prohibition on trade
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- divestmentDisposal of assets
- disinvestmentWithdrawing capital from assets
- tariffTax on traded goods
trade ban · blockade · moratorium · purchasing power · brand damage · corporate accountability · supply chain · economic leverage
Record of prohibited entities
- ostracizeExclude from a group
- shunDeliberately keep away
- banOfficial restriction on something
- avoidanceDeliberate keeping away
rejection · isolation · noncooperation · cold shoulder · snub · excommunication · pariah · persona non grata
Deliberately not do
opt out · nonsupport · nonparticipation · renounce · reject · repudiate · eschew · avoid
Wholeness through cohesion
- allianceFormal union of parties
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- collectiveJointly organized group
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
mutual support · fellowship · camaraderie · consensus · cohesion · backing · partnership · common cause
protest
Public expression of disapproval
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- movementChange in position
rally · march · strike · picket · sit-in · civil disobedience · grassroots · petition · advocacy · civil rights
embargo
Official prohibition on trade
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- divestmentDisposal of assets
- disinvestmentWithdrawing capital from assets
tariff · trade ban · blockade · moratorium · purchasing power · brand damage · corporate accountability · supply chain · economic leverage · withdrawal
blacklist
Record of prohibited entities
avoidance · rejection · isolation · noncooperation · cold shoulder · snub · excommunication · pariah · persona non grata · marginalize
abstain
Deliberately not do
forgo · opt out · nonsupport · nonparticipation · renounce · reject · repudiate · eschew · avoid · disavow
unity
Wholeness through cohesion
- allianceFormal union of parties
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- collectiveJointly organized group
cooperation · mutual support · fellowship · camaraderie · consensus · cohesion · backing · partnership · common cause · sympathy
- advocacypetition, advocating, protest sign, championing, picket sign
- EponymsDarwinian, Alzheimer's disease, Freudian slip, cardigan, Parkinson's disease
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- No-Gobanned, forbidden, off-limits, illegal, outlawed
- boycottstrade embargo, oil embargo, arms embargo, blacklist, divestment
- economic boycottCoordinated consumer abstention
- bus boycottOrganized refusal to ride
- consumer boycottOrganized refusal to purchase
- sex boycottWithholding intimacy as protest
- Montgomery bus boycott1955 Alabama transit protest
- school boycottsProtest by avoiding attendance